“I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.”

“I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.”

“Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.”

“I am not brave enough to be a coward," she said. "I see the consequences too clearly”

“You are a man. You are an average, lazy, boring, cowardly, woman-fearing man. Without me, that's what you would have kept on being, ad nauseam. But I made you into something. You were the best man you've ever been with me. And you know it. The only time in your life you've ever liked yourself was pretending to be someone I might like.”

“I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths.For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.”