I don't think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it's the little things that are harder anyway.

—Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone

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About Morgan Matson

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Morgan Catherine Matson (born September 19), also known under her pseudonym Katie Finn, is a New York Times bestselling American novelist.

More quotations from Morgan Matson

You said you didn't want to waste your time on people who aren't going to matter. But how do you know they're not going to matter? Unless you give it a shot?

—Morgan Matson in Second Chance Summer

I was realizing that it was pretty terrible to be sitting in silence with someone who you always used to have something to say to.

—Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone

I knew that there were no guarantees. Terrible things happened when you were least expecting them, on sunny Saturday mornings, and the consequences just had to be lived with, every day. But it seemed that wonderful things could happen too. You could be forced to take a trip, not knowing who you would meet. Not knowing that it would change your life.

—Morgan Matson in Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

Did you ever have a night that just…seemed to change everything? And everything is different afterward?

—Morgan Matson in Second Chance Summer

This felt like the way you get nervous right before something exciting happens—the moment when you're balanced on the top of the roller coaster, the hush before the surprise party, the second after the diving board but before the water, when you can close your eyes and imagine, for just a second, that you're flying. The feeling that good things were coming, almost here, any moment now.

—Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

—Thomas Fuller

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Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

—Jennifer Donnelly in The Wild Rose

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Ideally, one should have a great deal of courage and strength, but not boast or make a big show of it. Then, in times of need, one should rise to the occasion and fight bravely for what is right.

—14th Dalai Lama

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Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.

—Clarence Darrow

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