The universe assigned the tasks of speaking and kissing to the lips because there is never a need to do both at the same time. - Jaroslav Kalfař

Thus we never see the true State of our Condition, till it is illustrated to us by its Contraries; nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don’t have books written about them have it easier.

I wanted the basic needs of human existence—satiation of hunger, good health, love—to take on the shapes of small fruits we could plant and harvest. But who would be the plantation owners, and who the harvesters?