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

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The universe is amply supplied with night.

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Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

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The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as...more

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Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always ea...more

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Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun goes down, since...more

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Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, qu...more

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It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghost...more

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She was the storm, she was the lightning...

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Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be s...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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...but fear of death gives us strength.

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Slowly gently night creeps up on you, more gentle than light, it helps you realize how much the light hinders you. In the darkness your senses learn w...more