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“A story is like a painting, Sóli. It doesn’t have to look like what you see out the window.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

“The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the Second Law of Thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it to collapse in deepest humiliation.”
― Arthur Eddington, New Pathways in Science

“That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“If I could imagine the past with compassion, why couldn’t I breathe hope into an imagined future?”
― Jennifer Finney Boylan, She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders