But the things that make other people nervous have never scared me. I'm not afraid of men in golf carts or horror movies or roller coasters. I didn't know precisely what I was afraid of, but it wasn't this.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.