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"But hey, it's good to know your heart still works, right?" p105

"People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?" - p87

"But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life." - p41

timing is...everything

"In Amelia's experience, most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance." - p12

"The most important thing is finding someone you wish to play with."

"But we get so bogged down in staring straight into the abyss that we've lost our sight of heaven...The way to respond to this stuff is to imagine what we want as opposed to constantly reacting to what we do not want." - Dominique Christina page 179 - What If All of This Came to Pass

"We need to master the art of asking questions which address the gravity of our situation yet which also create longing, which evoke a deep and rich sense of the wonders we can still create, rather than shutting it down or putting it into a deep sleep of complacency." page 126 - What If We Started Asking Better Questions

"We need more people asking "what if?" and then "why not?"

"We must populate our imaginations with images and stories of our shared humanity, of our interconnectedness, of our solidarity as people -- a poetics of welcome, not walls." Imaging the Future page 102

"But relying on laws to change society, or assuming facts alone will convince people of their wrongness seems to me a foolhardy proposition. The stories we tell and the images we share -- children playing across borders, blueprints for binational cities -- matter." Imaging the Future page 102

"And I had proved for myself that remembering is not enough, if it simply hardens hate." p247 quoting Lomax's book