## Metadata - Author: [[Mark Lawrence]] - Full Title: One Word Kill - Category: #books ## Highlights - Fear is a strange thing. Along with its close friend, pain, fear is a vital part of the kit that evolution has furnished us with for keeping alive. Part of its effectiveness comes down to how hard it can be to overcome. If you have vertigo, then no amount of assurance that it won’t hurt will get you to step off the highest board at the swimming pool. If you’re scared of spiders, then ‘it’s a thousandth of your size’ and ‘they don’t bite’ are not going to make you pick one of the bastards up. Knowing that, in twenty-five years’ time, I would punch Michael Devis in the face and enjoy it could not remove the fear of confronting him alone there in that dimly lit hall. And so I stayed where I was, dry-mouthed, heart pounding, and watched. What the hell was he doing here? ([Location 1078](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07C24V3SD&location=1078))