The Moth Presents: All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown

by Catherine Burns

“Just walk fearlessly into the house of mourning, for grief is just love squaring up to its oldest enemy. And after all these mortal human years, love is up to the challenge.”

Brave men are always afraid. Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s the willingness—the guts, if you like—to face the fear.

when you hate, you take poison and you expect the other person to die.