And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Coraline to the cat. ‘It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were there, when he was really scared. That was brave.’
"‘Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave
— Neil Gaiman
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