“A sniper is cowardly, sneaky; he kills from a distance, unseen.”
“He knows the sniper will fire again, but he isn't afraid. At this moment fear doesn't exist. There's no such thing as bravery. There are no heroes, no villains, no cowards. There's what he can do, and what he can't. There's right and wrong and nothing else. The world is binary. Shading will come later.”
“And it was cowardly for a man to say he would kill himself, but Septimus had fought; he was brave; he was not Septimus now”
“He's got courage," Alex said."Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him and--”
“Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.”
“I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live”