Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

“If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's …”

“I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words …”

“We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think…”

“As I walked up toward the band kids, Ben shouted, ''Jacobsen, was I dreaming or…”