Natalie

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“The way you wear your hat,
The way you sip your tea,
The mem'ry of all that --
No, no! They can't take that away from me!”
― Ira Gershwin

“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello