Lights and darks. And suddenly i was here, where everything seems strange. And I don't know why. Like the Fox and the Crow, I don't know the whole story yet. But that's a good reason to go on, don't you think?" "Go where?" said the Scarecrow. "Go forward, " said the girl. "See something. Learn something. Figure it out. We won't ever get the whole thing, I bet, but we'll get something. And then we'll have something to tell when we're old about what happened to us when we were young." "Now?" said the Scarecrow. "Can you tell it now?" "After, " said the girl. "We have to have the BEFORE first, and that's life" "And what's life?" said the scarecrow. "Moving, " said the girl. "Moving on. Shall we move on? Will you come with me?. Bruce Coville
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"Lights and darks. And suddenly i was here, where everything seems strange. And I don't know why. Like the Fox and the Crow, I don't know the whole story yet.

But that's a good reason to go on, don't you think?" This quote expresses what we all feel when we wake up in the morning and look at our lives: like Dorothy looking at Oz and feeling like she doesn't know why she's there or Dorothy looking at Oz and knowing that Oz is not really real, but still wanting to go on because of what it represents: Life is a mystery. We all feel like we don't know where we came from or where we're going, but we still want to go on because this is all we have, so we must try to figure it out.

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