Rachel

“Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.”
― Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation

“Whenever I am calling god, her line is busy.”
― Megha Majumdar, A Burning

“People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.”
― David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

“A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark