Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.

When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.

People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.

the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead

Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won’t grow beyond your current self.

Smile! Make them comfortable with your size. Deal with their fears and your fears will go away.

...she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn’t breathe.

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense; it is not God.

Delighting in God’s Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.

She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.