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1 " Running, I soon realized, was the best way to stay ahead of fear. "
― Margot Livesey , The Flight of Gemma Hardy
2 " She was afraid of numbers the way some people are of spiders. The sight of them made her want to hide. What I loved about them, their clarity, was for her duplicity. Behind an innocent 2,or 5, or 9, she spied a mass of traps and pitfalls. "
3 " Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden. "
4 " Do you know,” he said, “that there are people who can’t go near high places not because they’re afraid of heights but because they feel such a lure to jump? "
