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“Fear is a fair exchange for love… Fear has wisdom in it, if you treat it well.”

“That is what fear can do. It is one of its darkest powers: it makes murky that which would otherwise be clear. It hides us from ourselves.”

“What do you do, in the face of evil men? In the face of evil men, protected by strong men and served by weak men?”

“The future isn’t something you have any right to, before it arrives.”

“I can’t. I’m just too tired.”
“You are not tired. You are panicked, and angry, and afraid, and lost. You will continue to be all of those things until you get up and do something. Then you will just be angry and afraid.”

“A gagana will not allow misery, because gaganas live long. They have seen too many beginnings to believe in anything so final as an ending.”

“To dare is to lose one’s balance, one’s footing in the world. Not to dare is to lose everything worth having.”

“You cannot both jump and not jump, Christopher,’ said Jacques. ‘You must choose.”