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 and sizes and manifestations.
They forget that when they get old. They get scared
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.
- John Green, Looking For
Alaska
