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  1. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't. People are much more complicated than that. It's true of everybody.'I said, 'Are you a monster? Like Ursula Monkton?'Lettie threw a pebble into the pond. 'I don't think so,' she said. 'Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.'I said, 'People should be scared of Ursula Monkton.''P'raps. What do you think Ursula Monkton is scared of?''Dunno. Why do you think she's scared of anything? She's a grown-up, isn't she? Grown-ups and monsters aren't scared of things.'Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters. And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.
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  2. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.
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  3. Caroline B. Cooney _ The Face on the Milk Carton

    She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.
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  4. Beth Revis _ The Body Electric

    I try not to look obvious as I wait for Mom's answer. I feel as if I am on the edge of a knife, my feet being sliced by the blade, teetering toward one side or the other."Oh, of course!" Mom exclaims, her voice trilling with laughter. "How could I have forgotten?"And now I know. Really know. This woman is not my mother. I don't know who she is, but I know absolutely who she is not.
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  5. Laurie Halse Anderson _ The Impossible Knife of Memory

    Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.
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  6. Laurie Halse Anderson _ The Impossible Knife of Memory

    Until then we're going to keep making memories like this, moments when we're the only two people in the whole world. And when we get scared or lonely or confused, we'll pull out these memories and wrap them around us and they'll make us feel safe. And strong."
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  7. Sarah J. Maas _ A Court of Mist and Fury

    And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine.
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  8. David Sedaris _ Dress Your Family in Corduroy

    Low ceiling, stone walls, a dirt floor stamped with paw prints. I never go in without announcing myself. 'Hyaa!' I yell. 'Hyaa. Hyaa!' It's the sound my father makes when entering his toolshed, the cry of cowboys as they round up dogies, and it suggests a certain degree of authority. Snakes, bats, weasels --it's time to head up and move on out.
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  9. Khaled Hosseini _ The Kite Runner

    Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.
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  10. Douglas Adams _ Life, the Universe and

    He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.
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  11. David D. Burns _ When Panic Attacks: The New,

    You'd probably start laughing because you'd realize that your fears had been the result of a gigantic cosmic joke that had persisted throughout all of your previous reincarnations.
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  12. Neal Stephenson _ Seveneves

    Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever.
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