“If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.” 
― Deepak Chopra

“Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.” 
― Gavin de Becker

“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.” 
― Tana French

“But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of me . . . or she was going to be the one who finally brought me back to life.” 
― Colleen Hoover

“since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid” 
― E.E. Cummings

“In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.” 
― Rachel Caine

“What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. ” 
― Sharon Creech

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.” 
― Franz Kafka