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Being brave doesn't mean you're not scared.

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I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

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It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were ther...more

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I'm not much of a challenge here in the dark.

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I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

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Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

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And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Coraline to the cat. ‘It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t s...more

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She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

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Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky.

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The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man. He had long since deci...more

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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.'I said, ...more

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Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.

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You don’t need princes to save you. I don’t have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.