"These awful things are
survivable, because we are as
indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults
say, 'Teenagers
think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their
faces, they
don't know how right they are. We need never be
hopeless,
because we can never be irreparably
broken. We think that
we are invincible, because we are. We cannot be born, and we
cannot die. Like all
energy, we can only change shapes, sizes, and
manifestations. They forget that when they get old.
They are afraid of losing
and failing. But that
part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and
cannot end, and so it cannot fail."