A. "at a certain point, most of us learn to leave these kinds of visions behind and grow up. We learn that there are no monsters hiding under the bed, and not every earthquake brings buildings down." (Paragraph 4)
B. "just as importantly, we need to think of ourselves as the readers of our fears, and how we choose to read our fears can have a profound effect on our lives." (Paragraph 7)
C. "Terrified of cannibals, they decided to forgo the closest islands and instead embarked on the longer and much more difficult route to South America." (Paragraph 9)
D. "Maybe then we'd spend less time worrying about serial killers and plane crashes, and more time concerned with the subtler and slower disasters we face" (Paragraph 11)
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To best support the answer to Part A, the most appropriate quote is:
B. "just as importantly, we need to think of ourselves as the readers of our fears, and how we choose to read our fears can have a profound effect on our lives." (Paragraph 7)
This quote emphasizes the importance of how we interpret our fears, which likely relates to the central idea discussed in Part A.
