Shanthi Sekaran Quotes

#1. Sometimes the things that happen can be changed. Sometimes they cannot. Which time is this?

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#2. Ignacio climbed into his lap and examined his face. It was a relief to be in a child's world, where kindness was the standard operating mode, where clarity was the order of the day, and adult posturing kept its distance. Hearings

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#3. Like most children, she came into the world assuming everyone was good, and spent the rest of her life discovering otherwise.

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#4. But very small things could be a big deal within the very small orbits on which they spin.

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#5. This thing, growing inside and filling her breasts with promise, this thing was the same as her. It matched her better than anything or anyone she'd known.

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#6. But no matter what, strangers never disappointed, because she expected nothing from them. It was the people she knew, who liked and even loved her, who could let her down most cruelly.

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#7. People with good intentions tended not to question themselves. And people who didn't question themselves, in the scientific world and beyond, were the ones to watch out for. That

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#8. And good intentions? These scared him the most: people with good intentions tended not to question themselves. And people who didn't question themselves, in the scientific world and beyond, were the ones to watch out for.

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