Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don’t intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of your control.

—Dana Reinhardt in Harmless

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I think about how we can't always live in the moment because moments pass, and when we're lucky, we have the kind of moments that we can't help wanting to go back to. We think about them, remember how they felt, and when more time passes we tell stories of these moments that are worth reliving.

—Dana Reinhardt in How to Build a House

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

—Dana Reinhardt in Harmless

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

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When there’s something or someone, when there’s anything that makes you happy, you don’t let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

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Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don’t weigh them down like a sack full of stones.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

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If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.

—John Alejandro King

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The last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances; to choose one's own way.

—Viktor Frankl

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Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

—David Sedaris

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The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth; little to do with control, and much to do with acceptance; little to do with division and analysis, and much to do with union.

—Marilyn Sewell

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Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don’t be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

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