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“And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. Everything is always both. But you have to open it to find that out.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“You lived; you will always have lived. Death does not erase your life. It is mere punctuation.”
― James Gleick, Time Travel: A History

“Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Here is that road, maybe a thousand miles long, and the woman walking down it isn't at mile one. I don't know how far she has to go, but I know she's not going backward, despite it all - and she's not walking alone.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“There is no getting into the future except by waiting.”
― James Gleick, Time Travel: A History