-’expectation keeps us standing  
               but it’s the unexpected
                        that changes our lives’-

I found the quote while studying learning for the History Mock Exam.  Suddenly, in the lower right corner, a quote caught my eye. There it was, written in cursive and with a pen that wrote in a blue different from the one used in the timeline itself.

My first reaction was a smile of approval at the quote itself, followed by intrigue. Where did this come from? Who said it? Faithful old Google could not find an exact match, only something roughly similar- a quote from Grey’s Anatomy (*bricked*).

But then I thought, halt there! Last year I didn’t even know of the show’s existance! How could it be…? And then the scene flickered through my eyes. Me watching Grey’s Anatomy on the laptop, finding that quote excellent, muttering it to myself as to not forget it, grabbing the closest copybook, my beloved Orange debate one, opening it in a random page,  scribbling what my memory could recall.

Turning the quote into something that wasn’t Grey’s Anatomy and that wasn’t my own, but something in between. This is the explanation I give as to why I didn’t annotate the author of the quote. (There remains the chance that it’s from somewhere else) Oh well.

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