Mind your feet, don’t stumble, and don’t be afraid. Because there never was a better time not to be afraid. - Manly Wade Wellman

Got some dirty tricks? If that’s how it is, you done drove your ducks to the wrong puddle.

If you drop a hook in, you'll get a bite right quick," I said. "Maybe not the biggest fish, but the best fighter. They'd fight one another to take the hook."
"There's some sort of parable to that thought," she said, not air way cheerfully. "How life gives you something you think is good and wholesome, and then uses it to yank you out of your world.

But if I feared it, I faced up to it anyway. A man’s got to be a man sometime. You show me one who was nair afraid, and I’ll right away show you one that nair in his life came up against aught to fear.