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Nadine Gordimer

"A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."

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"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."

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"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."

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"You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy."

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"The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask."

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Amber Hurdle

"Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Regalia. You see, I was tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Everyday when I wake I tell myself it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it."Gregor thought this was the single saddest thing anyone had ever said to him. He couldn't answer."And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?"

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but one day we finally understand that you turn away not from our faces but from your own fears. From those things inside you that you think mark you as someone unlovable to your family, and society, and even to God."

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Amber Hurdle

"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."

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Amber Hurdle

"No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice."

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Amber Hurdle

"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them."

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