“sometimes the best thing to do is to
pretend it didn't happen”
Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City
Source: Summer and the City
“Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.”
— Jodi Picoult, book Nineteen Minutes
Source: Nineteen Minutes
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Context: All I have to do is make you see this. This one particular thing here. That's all. And sometimes it's impossible. Sometimes, I know the best odds I can hope for are a thousand to one. You'll see what you see, what your life has conditioned you to see upon encountering that combination of words, not what I want or need you to see. Fiction writing is like making films for the blind.