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...
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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...
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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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It's a weapon, I understand?""In the wrong hands, all tools are weapons. In the right hands, everything is a weapon, or nothing is.
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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...
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Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.
