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Do you know that I no longer see colors?"Jonas's heart broke.

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Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

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But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

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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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Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradual...more

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... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.

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When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a gift.

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Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.

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The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

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Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

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And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

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It's just that...without the memories, it's all meaningless.

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Why do you and I have to hold these memories?''It gives us wisdom.