Any fool can be brave on a battle field when it's be brave or else be killed.
He once told me that being a lord is like being a father, except you have thousands of children and you worry about all of them. The farmers plowing the fields are yours to protect. The charwomen scrubbing the floors, yours to protect. The soldiers you order into battle. He told me he woke with fear in the morning and went to bed with fear in the night. I didn't believe him. I asked him, "How can a man be brave if he's afraid?" "That is the only time a man can be brave," he told me.
But he that dares not gasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
You don't have time to be timid. You must be bold, daring.
I don't want to be a brave. I just want to be myself.
She made me decide what I'd take if we had to go. She said if I was brave, I wouldn't take anything.
Dandelion quotes William Shakespeare