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What If? Your Guide to Making the Best Decisions Ever

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“And I put my hand on her arm to stop her rowing. Aaron’s Noise roars up in red and black. The current takes us on. “I’m sorry!” I cry as the river takes us away, my words ragged things torn from me, my chest pulled so tight I can’t barely breathe. “I’m sorry, Manchee!” “Todd?” he barks, confused and scared and watching me leave him behind. “Todd?” “Manchee!” I scream. Aaron brings his free hand towards my dog. “MANCHEE!” “Todd?” And Aaron wrenches his arms and there’s a CRACK and a scream and a cut-off yelp that tears my heart in two forever and forever. And the pain is too much it’s too much it’s too much and my hands are on my head and I’m rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that’s inside of me.”

“You can blame everyone for your circumstances, but that will not change the fact that you still must live in them. Change does not come until you take responsibility for your choices and proceed to do something. You must make the change happen. You must do it. In truth, no one else is to blame if things fail to change.”

“C’est ma faute, pleurait-elle, et c’était la vérité, impossible de le nier, mais il était vrai aussi, si cela pouvait lui servir de consolation, que si avant chaque acte nous nous mettions à y réfléchir sérieusement, à en prévoir toutes les conséquences, d’abord les conséquences immédiates, puis les conséquences probables, puis les conséquences éventuelles, puis les conséquences imaginables, nous n’arriverions jamais à bouger de l’endroit où la première pensée nous aurait cloués sur place.”