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41 " Here’s what I do. I say to my creator, ‘I’m "
― Catherine Ryan Hyde , Take Me with You
42 " The longer you live, the more you’ll see that the inside of everybody is a lot like the inside of everybody else. If you’re feeling something, more likely than not it’s just what anyone would feel. "
43 " Sometimes stuff just happens, you know? There’s not always some simple thing to point to, like if you just don’t do this, nothing can go wrong. Something can always go wrong. But we don’t like to think that way, so we point a lot. "
44 " ,,,,felt himself fall off the center line for the first time. Deeply into self-pity. He didn't even bother to try to break his own fall. He just sank all the way down. Let the current take him away. "
45 " Questioned where it was hiding. Maybe it was because he "
46 " these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which "
47 " Full of wonder and fear warring with each other. August knew the wonder would win. He wished he could communicate what he knew to this frightened boy. But that never did any good anyway. "
48 " Most people say it makes them feel smaller. Like the world is so big, it makes "
49 " But it’s funny how you can take something that turns out to be fatal and classify it as not worth fixing. "
50 " Maybe we’ve removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. Maybe it’s not the kids’ fault. "
51 " They were not children. They had grown into people he knew little about. And they had done so without his help or influence, or even,--for the most part--his witness. It made him feel as though something precious had been taken from him. "
52 " After a while you look at a picture and all it helps you remember is the picture. And then it gets kind of memorized and you hardly even see it. "
53 " lot of roads. Some not so happy. And it makes them what they are. So if you run around putting a pillow under people to cushion their fall . . . well, I’m just not sure it’s quite the favor we think it is. "
54 " Maybe the school was the problem, August thought. Maybe everybody wants a science lesson if they’re sitting in the middle of one of the greatest geothermal wonders of the world. Maybe we’ve removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. Maybe it’s not the kids’ fault. Maybe we made the first mistake. "
55 " It would be easier if people were just good or bad and that was that. "
56 " ever do such a thing. Which I’m not saying is wrong, but we know we take risks, too. Maybe we even blame them more because we want to pretend it never could have happened to us. But of course it could have. We make life-and-death decisions every day. The odds are just really good on most of them. But if something goes wrong, we’re still responsible. And we don’t get to do it over, either. "
57 " After a moment August felt Henry’s arms wrap around his chest, and the little guy’s face pressed up hard on his shoulder. “Don’t be sad, August,” the little mouse voice said. "
58 " We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which "
59 " There’s some things in this life you can change and some you can’t. I’m sure August tells you the same thing. Here’s what you do when the time comes to talk to your dad. Here’s what I do. I say to my creator, ‘I’m about to open my mouth here. And, historically, that’s been a dicey thing, as we both know. So some help is in order. So let me know what you want me to say to this person in this situation. Say it through me. "
60 " he wouldn’t meet August’s eyes. “Um . . .” he said after a time. “We’ll be too far away.” “I’ve got my camera with the super zoom.” Seth buckled the belt and threw it back on the picnic table with a huge, jangly clank. Then he took August by the arm and led him around to the rear door of the motor home. "