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21 " My curse is that my child is not mine to keep. Eli was of my own body,but he does not belong to me. I don’t own my body neither. By natural law I do, but by the white man’s laws of paper and ink, I own nothing. You can steal something with gunpowder. You can hold something down by chains. But you own it with paper. "
― Francesca Serritella , Ghosts of Harvard
22 " It is far easier and more pleasant to imagine happy endings, however farfetched, in all their vivid, rainbow colors than it is to face each day's reality and let time and fortune do their worst. "
23 " Adventure is only possible if you don't spoil the ending. "
24 " They say fate is written in the stars, but the irony is that stars don’t project the future, they reflect the past. If you think about it, every time you look at a star, you’re looking back in time. The North Star is four hundred thirty light-years away, so when you see it shining, the light hitting your eyes is already four hundred thirty years old. "
25 " Our feelings about the result of any action color our perception of past decision making. "
26 " Just because you can't explain something doesn't make it untrue. "