Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
Salander was afraid of no-one and nothing. She realized that she lacked the necessary imagination - and that was evidence enough that there was something wrong with her brain.
At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.
When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.
A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.
Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.
That's always been my problem - the lack of fear in some situations.
I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.
If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.
I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.
