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“Thorn stood without motion, for only when you are truly still can you be the centre. She stood without sound, for only silent can you listen. She stood without fear, for only the fearless can under...”
“Dying in one’s fourth decade is unusual now, but dying is not. “The thing about lung cancer is that it’s not exotic,” Paul wrote in an email to his best friend, Robin. “The reader can get into thes...”
“I am afraid... But I keep on loving what's on the other side of this fight, and that will have to make me brave.”
“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
“A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.”
“I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to… to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.”
“If you could choose any mask to wear right now, what would it be?” Anne lay down her yarn. “I suppose if, as you say, I would grow into this mask, then I would make it of my own face . . . but a br...”
“Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.”
“Then help us.”“I don’t want to make trouble, Madame.”“Isn’t doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?”“Doing nothing is doing nothing.”“Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.” …“It’s not a person ...”
“I’m going,’ he said, and in the temple light, I caught his determination, and that strength he got from loving me. It made him brave.”
“Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
“The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.”
“Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.”
“It’s not called ‘falling in love’ for no reason. It’s scary! It’s like jumping out of a plane with no parachute. Or bungee-jumping without your cord attached. Or hang-gliding with only one wing.”
“Olive was way beyond hearing anything, but her chin was set and she was determined to help the pilot so that he would not be too afraid before they hit the earth. She smiled and nodded again. At th...”
“Let the Kez come,” Tamas roared. “Let them send their greatest generals after us. Let them stack the odds against us. Let them come upon us with all their fury, because these hounds at our heels wi...”
“I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.”
“Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too,” I said. “But he went on. I expect you to do the same.”
“The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death.”
“maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear”
