If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

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

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.