“Too much imagination and I’ll scare myself to death. Too little and I’ll get myself killed.”
Source: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 4 The Norn, Section 1 (p. 95)
“I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live”
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Jodi Picoult
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The Pact
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