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“But when she thought of all the things she wanted to do, and do right - do right by, do as well as they could be done . . . It was all so risky, because there were no guarantees. You couldn't be sure that any of the risks would pay off. Even if you studied, and planned, and worked, even if you did the best you could, you could still lose out. There was no way to walk away from the truth of that. That's what no guarantees meant. But even knowing that didn't make Dicey feel any different about anything - which puzzled her, because it didn't make sense that it shouldn't. Then she understood - it wasn't guarantees she needed, or any of them needed, but chances, chances to take. Just the chance to take a chance.”
― Cynthia Voigt, Seventeen Against the Dealer