If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This - Pg 102 : Harriet Elliot

   "There must be something that you want," she said, back upstairs, after lunch, her door now locked. "Something important enough to make you brave."
   I thought of my parents. I only shrugged.
   "It has to be something you want so much that it hurts. So you feel like your arms and legs will fall off if you don't get it. And your head. Your head will roll away. And your backbone with crumble. So if you think about that, how bad that would be, you can't be scared. Not of other things."