I Am Half Afraid To Hope For What I Long For.

“…I am half afraid to hope for what I long for.”

— Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mrs. A.P Strong, August 1851

“You know, she was four years old the first time she beat me at hide and seek. Four. I was looking for her for hours. When I finally found her she just smiled. You know, that Effy smile that means ‘you don’t know me at all, and you never will’. See that’s a kind of magic. She’s so good at concealing things… hiding, avoiding. But I do know her. And I know that she has got so much love in her heart. But the thought of letting it out, showing her cards, scares her to death.”

— Anthea Stonem, Skins

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means that you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”

— Coraline, Neil Gaiman

“I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane