“Now I wanted to be acknowledged, but I feared it.”
“It occurs to me now that it isn't that I was always certain there was no truth to the rumor; it was that I didn't want to acknowledge the possibility there could be any truth to it.”
“Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.”
“Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?”
“I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.”
“Now there's a girl I don't want to mess with' — or at least, that's what I would think if I had a chronic fear of freakishly nice people.”