“When you are scared, but you do it anyway, that's brave.”

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”

“Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.”

“When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.”

“Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.”

“You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.”

“Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come back to it when you're older, and you will find the book has changed because you have changed as well, and the book is wiser, or more foolish, because you are wiser or more foolish than you were as a child.”