“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”— H.G. Wells Related Quotes “If you don’t learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you’ll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.”— Elizabeth Gilbert “I’m afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.”— Julia Child “In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, ‘Me? You’ve got to be joking!’ I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.”— Danica McKellar