I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.

I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.

Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.

your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house.

It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.