Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl’s eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear.Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory.But human beings are like that,’ she thought. ‘We’ve replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl’s eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear.Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory.But human beings are like that,’ she thought. ‘We’ve replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

– Paulo Coelho –

Veronika Decides to Die

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