Andrew Winer > Quotes

“Hardly more than a decade later, when everything he knows will be gone forever—this life of his, the people in this room, Vienna itself really—he will look back on this moment and marvel at how randomly a life gets made. But then the rest of his memory of this day will come back to him, its queer weather, the walk with his pensive and distracted father through the Jewish district, his grandfather’s underlying despondency, and all at once his life will look in retrospect like the correct if troublesome path, among many false ones, to the top of a baffling mountain—as if all his choices were made according to a larger uneasy symmetry. His life will seem as if it could not have been any other way.”
― Andrew Winer, The Marriage Artist