I think having the knowledge, plus the experiences you've lived through, make you definitely not fragile. They make you brave.
People are always saying these things about how there's no need to read literature anymore-that it won't help the world. Everyone should apparently learn to speak Mandarin, and learn how to write code...
There were the signed, spiral-bound Spirit-in-the-Woods yearbooks from three summers in a row and the aerial photograph of everyone at camp the second summer. In it, Ethan's feet were planted on Jule'...
...because when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young.