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

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

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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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It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

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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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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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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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The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

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I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

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