I am not a fate worse than death, dammit! - Lois McMaster Bujold

One’s career might depend solely on one’s own efforts, but marriage was a lottery, and you drew your lot in late adolescence or early adulthood at a point of maximum idiocy and confusion. Perhaps it was just as well. If people were too sensible, the human race might well come to an end. Evolution favored the maximum production of children, not of happiness.

Heaven weeps, but free will is sacred. The meaning of yes is created by the ability to say no.

One couldn’t fix the past, only the present.