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“Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid”
“If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I'm right?" His father laughed but didn't answer.”
“Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.”
“He lowered his eyes to his dad's face. There was fear there. Fear. When your dad was frightened, there was something to be frightened about.”
“Xander could sense more than David's smile. He wished he could be more like that, easygoing. But then, David hadn't seen what Xander had seen.”
“Live to fight another day was an expression that did not take nto account the loved one who would die because you didn't continue fighting today.”
“Nothing but trees.”
“I don't know...just a feeling, like in..." Xander thought for a moment. "Star Wars. You know, when Han Solo says, 'I've got a bad feeling about this'?”
“The road simply ended. No cul-de-sac. No sign like the ones they had seen before: "Private Property. No Trespassing." Or "No Motorized Vehicles Beyond This Point." Just road...then trees.”
