This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do.

You can choose faith or you can choose fear. But only one will bring you what you long for.

Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.

We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.

They fear you as I once feared you,” he said. “As you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina.

He was quiet for a moment, and then he said, “Do you understand a little better now? What it’s like to face a power so alien? To face an enemy with such unnatural strength?

She did not tell herself she wasn’t afraid. Long ago, after a bad fall, her father had explained that only fools were fearless. We meet fear, he'd said. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.

The world is changing,’ said Nikolai, the steel edge emerging in his voice. ‘We change with it, or there will be nothing left to remember us but the dust.’Vasily laughed. ‘I can’t decide if you’re a fearmonger or a coward.’‘And I can’t decide if you’re an idiot or an idiot.

Alex knew better than to look too closely, but in that fleeting moment she could have sworn they looked frightened. What did the dead have to fear?