“Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.”
“Don't try to push [fear] away,' he said. 'If you fight it, you make it stronger. You gotta great it politely, like an unwanted cousin. You can't make it leave you alone, but you can do what you have to do, in spite of it.”
“You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
“How can you give up the world? Just do what you ought to do, and it will give you up.”
“What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat)I write romance novels. (Acheron)”
“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.”