"Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead."

Risk, Trying, Courage, Failure

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"Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead."

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"She existed in her friends, there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them."

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