Bridget C

“It was like telling someone who's afraid of the dark to go stand in the sunshine; eventually, the sun always goes down.”
― A.X. Rhodes, Saying Goodbye: a short story

“Probe deeply enough, under the slickest façade of confidence, and you tapped a vein of self-doubt or a hidden fear. Irrational fears and baseless doubts, many of them, but that was precisely why constant reassurance was necessary to the human animal.”
― Barbara Michaels