" listened to that fear instead of ignoring it.” But I shook my head. “Maybe that’s true for normal people. People who aren’t messed up, I mean. But when you’ve spent a lifetime being afraid, you either learn to move past it, or you never accomplish a goddamned thing. You wither away until only the fear is left. "

― R.A. Steffan , The Last Vampire: Book Two (The Last Vampire, #2)