"Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud."
"Fear is a ... it's a weird thing, when you think about it. People are only afraid of other things, they're never afraid of themselves."
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Source: Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.148, Macmillan
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