Fear finds its prey in adolescents for the exact same reason fearlessness does. Every cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer is a cut, scrape, broken arm or cancer that has yet to arrive, that is on the sidelines waiting, along with fate and the story of your life, of everything bad that can happen, some of which will happen–but right now, they’re purely theoretical. It is up to the adolescent’s imagination to make them bleed, to make them hurt. John M. Keller
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This quote is amazing because it makes you realize that fear finds its prey in adolescents for the exact same reason fearlessness does. Fear finds its prey in adolescents and makes them feel like they cannot do anything right and that everything is going bad. That is because fear finds its prey in adolescents and finds a way to make their life worst. This quote is very helpful because it gives us objective knowledge of what fear does to people and how it affects them.

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