“Too scared to fightToo afraid to open my eyesToo small to stand up for myselfToo awake to fight for my dreamsGod please teach me to be brave So that I can brave defeat”

“You don’t know what love is until you find it,” he whispered, “but when you do, promise me you won’t let it go. Promise you’ll seek it out even when you’re scared it’ll hurt.”

“The statement, ‘this is as far as I can go’ is code for ‘I’m blind’, I’m scared’, or both.”

“Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.”

“It’s making me so sad that you are unreachable. My desire for your touch, and your lips. It’s breaking me inside. I’m so scared you are the only one i will ever love. I’m so scared because I know there is no other you.”

“You only feel powerless because your fear has given your power to the object of your fear. Once you realise this, you can claim it back.”

“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself. You hide to protect yourself.”

“Three rules to obey!1. Don’t be over-impressed by your past glories! 2. Don’t be scared by your future stories!3. Be hopeful to get out of today’s miseries!”

“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our doors and hide our children. Their aim is to make us fear life itself! They want us to hate. They want us to hate ‘the other’. They want us to practice aggression and perfect antagonism. Their aim is to divide us all! They want us to be inhuman. They want us to throw out our kindness. They want us to bury our love and burn our hope. Their aim is to take all our light! They think their bricked walls will separate us. They think their damned bombs will defeat us. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that my soul and your soul are old friends. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that when they cut you I bleed. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that we will never be afraid, we will never hate and we will never be silent for life is ours!”

“What happens if you get scared half to death twice?”

“that there are many things that we cant understand. the past. the bad things that happened… and we become afraid. of what might happen in the future. its okay to be afraid. but we have to keep hoping and believeing… to keep hoping and trying our best to be good and do good. even when we’re afraid”

“I’m going to die whatever you do, but I’m not afraid.”

“It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.”

“Key to happiness I do not know what other people say,But what I know is that my key to happiness lies beneath my dark secrets and my deep sorrows. And I don’t have what it takes to get that key.”

“I want to tell him that I don’t know what i feel. I want him but i’m frightened to want him. I don;t want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else’s to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.”