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"'Holland?!?' you say. 'What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy.' But there's been a change in the flight plan...So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language...if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things...about Holland."

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

 

"But finally, in the spring of 2015, they both agreed, the only other explanation for this clustering of Kuiper Belt objects was indeed a planet--a big one. On January 20, 2016, they made the announcement proposing that our solar system has a giant planet orbiting far away from everything else. They told all astronomers with access to the most powerful telescopes to go and find it. They wanted to find it too."
 

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 edited by Michio Kaku

"...but nothing in human life is unmixed, and honors inevitably balance themselves with self-doubt."

Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall