Miranda

“It didn't mean she wasn't scared, but she was stronger now, altered forever by this journey. The Ceres who had first arrived would not have been capable of walking through that doorway--or more correctly, would not have believed herself capable of it, which was not the same thing. That Ceres was lost, and melancholic, but had forgotten for a while that this was the human condition: often to be lost, confused, or anxious, but finally to comprehend that, at crucial instances, we will find ourselves lost precisely where we were meant to be; that there is little use to be learned from the familiar--one may gain comfort from it, but not knowledge--only from what is strange and new; and that everything worth experiencing or embracing is, because unknown, first touched by fear.”
― John Connolly, The Land of Lost Things