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“It’s like fitting a hand-me-down suit. It’s luck. Not love. Not that it isn’t nice to have luck. Maybe the only way to think of it is being at the center of all beauty. Just by chance, today we get to be in the center of all beauty.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“We have the power to imagine better.”
― J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

“We all recognize grief in moments that should be celebrations; it is the salt in the pudding.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“The equation was simple. A bank director who blows millions on foolhardy speculations should not keep his job. A managing director who plays shell company games should do time. A slum landlord who forces young people to pay through the nose and under the table for a one-room apartment with shared toilet should be hung out to dry.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo