Feelings don’t follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.

I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong and my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave....If there's no feeling of fear then there's no need for courage.

...none of us can stop listening. Because what is more transfixing than the sound of people hating you?In the darkest part of our hearts, we used to think that maybe they were right.We don't think that anymore.

We know: An almost certain way to die is to believe you are already dead.

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead