Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, yo... - Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

"Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope."

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