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I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?

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You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

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She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.

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We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.

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...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

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Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

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It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

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That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. B...more

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It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.