I no longer liked the night. The darkness was where he lied in wait, waiting for it to swallow me whole, suffocating my senses with fear.

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

Now is the place where the Miracles of life occur. If your mind is occupied with worry, anger or fear, they most surely will go unnoticed.

I'm scared all the time," she whispered. "You'd be an idiot if you weren't," Anne said. "And you wouldn't be brave either.

She said people are too obsessed with conquering their fear when they should just learn to accept it and do stuff that scares them anyway.

If you don't stop fear, fear will stop you. Somebody's gotta stop. My advice? Don't let it be you. Whatever IT is. Do IT afraid

I was thinking: Girls get scared way too often. Girls get stupidly scared. I was not scared.Telling myself not to be scared kind of worked.

The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.

And then suddenly she was on her feet, her heart knocking in her chest, a sudden familiar but long-forgotten terror triggered- but by what?

I do not know your situation. But I know the easy answer is almost always the wrong one. Search your heart. Where is your fear driving you?

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

We are the dead,' he said.'We are the dead,' echoed Julia dutifully.'You are the dead,' said an iron voice behind them.

I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family.

Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen—is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.