Celeste

“What?’ shouted Tom Bombadil, leaping up in the air. ‘Old Man Willow? Naught worse than that, eh? That can soon be mended. I know the tune for him. Old grey Willow-man! I’ll freeze his marrow cold, if he don’t behave himself. I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away. Old Man Willow!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make me me?”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter