"It doesn't go away. It never will. But when it hurts, lean into it. It's so much harder to stay alive. That doesn't mean you don't deserve to live. It means you're brave."
Lirael, Garth Nix
"I'm afraid, too," Lirael said quietly. "Of Death and Hedge and probably a thousand other things. But I'd rather be afraid and do something than just sit and wait for terrible things to happen."
Fairest, Gail Carson Levine
The mood in the hall was leaden.
My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.
Abhorsen, Garth Nix, x2
She did feel sorry for Nick. It wasn't his fault he had been chosen by an ancient spirit of evil to be its avatar.
Trace Elements, Donna Leon
She looked at him in surprise, but then her expression changed to that of a leopard seal just noticing a baby penguin paddling in the water above it.
Stargate Atlantis: Homecoming, Jo Graham & Melissa Scott
"Yes, I'm wearing a baby," Sheppard said. "It's very funny. Can we get past that?"
"Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case," Across the Wall, Garth Nix, x2
Until then, Nick decided, he should try to rest and gather his strength. As much as the adrenaline coursing through his bloodstream would let him rest, immobilized on a steel operating table in a secret underground facility run by a lunatic, with a totally inimical creature on the loose.
Cinder, Marissa Meyer
"I was hoping you would have inherited more gumption from our people."
"Sorry. I seem to have lost my gumption when my foot fell off during a live netfeed."
Clariel, Garth Nix, x2
"May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?"
Goldenhand, Garth Nix, x2
"Have you an idea how we might do this?"
"Shoot lots of arrows at her," said Ferin.
"That has the virtue of simplicity," said Young Laska.
Stargate Atlantis: The Lost, Jo Graham & Amy Griswold
"There is nothing to do but live with it," Radek said. "Or die." He took a casual sip of his coffee. "And no, I do not think you are suicidal. If you were, you would only need to stop ducking."
To Hold the Bridge, Garth Nix
Darkness wasn't so much my friend as a close relative.
Stargate Atlantis: Allegiance by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold
"Doing the impossible isn't actually a job requirement, is it?"
O'Neill gave him a long look. "Not technically," he said. "In actual practice, you'd be surprised."
Stargate Atlantis: The Furies by Jo Graham
"It is a conceit to believe our story begins with you, or that before you came we dwelled in an innocent paradise. The myth of your culpability is just one more way of making the story about you."
Luster, Raven Leilani
"You can be yourself with me, you know," he says, and it's all I can do not to laugh right in his face.
Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi, Charles Soule
Avar heard a song, and Elzar saw a sea, of endless detph and breadth. The Force never began or ended, and it was impossible to use it up.
Till the Butchers Cut Him Down, Marcia Muller
Sometimes the dead must bear the burden of a lie; sometimes the truth must be warped in favor of the living.
Stargate Atlantis: Secrets, Jo Graham & Melissa Scott
There were beginnings worth having but nobody could give them to you. All they could give you was a gate to walk through.
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