“Dude! Put a bell on. You don't walk up on a brother like that and scare the crap out of him. (Nick)Sorry. Didn't realize you scared like a little girl. (Acheron)”

“Cassie looked up at him, her fingers still intermeshed with his. "Sorry," she said unsteadily. "I was just scared." "Remind me to get you scared frequently," Nick said. He looked slightly dazed.”

“Any idiot can be liked. It takes talent to scare the crap out of people"-”

“With him I couldn’t be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never existed like that before.”

“You've been here before, Bell. Remember the stories you told me about wandering in the woods when you were a little girl? It scared the crap out of you, but you went out there all alone, knee-high to a bunny rabbit, and picked berries and climbed trees and found bird nests and came home all bug-bitten and mossy. And you loved every minute of it. It made you our beautiful Arctic Bell, impervious to cold and feared by mosquitoes. Aren't you glad you didn't stay by grandma's side, darning socks and baking gingerbread?Who darns socks?Girls nobody tells stories about.”

“Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.”