“...what was important, what mattered, was not the fact of being afraid, but what you did, the choices you made, when you were afraid. And maybe that was something to do with being alive--or staying dead.”

“Being brave isn't not being afraid. Being brave is being afraid and going ahead and doing what you have to do.”

“fear is something i don't you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, you're liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is there to be afraid of? You just go along and do what has to be done.".,”

“I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.”

“Fear is something I don’t think you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, then you’re liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is there to be afraid of? You just go along doing what has to be done.”

“That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.”