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1 " We can't force life to do what we want when we want it. We can't change yesterday or control tomorrow. We can only live today as best we can. And it just might turn out better than expected "
― Sarah McCoy , The Mapmaker's Children
2 " So unabashed as to make its recipient afraid—not of the girl but of a world that didn’t abide such forthright joy. "
3 " Though their goals had been righteous, their means of anarchy would not go unpunished. "
4 " Better she left him before he left her for someone young with a belly full of immortal possibilities. "
5 " Her father had proven to them all: when a beating heart stopped, there was no black or white, only blood-red. "
6 " While the country had legally made all men equal, they'd heard enough reports to know that bigotry festered and continued to kill with equal malice. "
7 " When none of those seemed to cure her, she moved on to modern medicine: a fertility specialist, who recommended drugs to induce ovulation and daily hormone injections that made her sob over a missed green light, a cookie dropped to the floor, bow-tied pigtails on little girls. The "
8 " Accident, blessing in disguise, fate, fortune, or happenstance-they were definitions of the same: life with no guaranteed happy ending. "
9 " We can't force life to do what we want when we want it. We can't change yesterday or control tomorrow. We can only live today as best we can. And it just might turn out to be better than expected. "
10 " When a beating heart stopped, there was no black or white, only blood-red. The flesh was equal. It was the character of a man that made him better or worse. "
11 " People were capable of more love and benevolence than they realized. The collective public voice did not always represent the individual heart "
12 " Art is a fairy tale for the eye. "
