“The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.”
“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
“Why do most people take the shortest route to settle their differences and just walk off, break up and go separate ways instead of trying to talk and work things out?”
“It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.”
“Courage is ignoring your fear.”
“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”