" Lights and darks. And suddenly i was here, where everything seems strange. And I don't know why. Like the Fox and the Crow, I don't know the whole story yet. But that's a good reason to go on, don't you think?" " Go where?" said the Scarecrow. " Go forward," said the girl. " See something. Learn something. Figure it out. We won't ever get the whole thing, I bet, but we'll get something. And then we'll have something to tell when we're old about what happened to us when we were young." " Now?" said the Scarecrow. " Can you tell it now?" " After," said the girl. " We have to have the BEFORE first, and that's life" " And what's life?" said the scarecrow. " Moving," said the girl. " Moving on. Shall we move on? Will you come with me? "