Adam

“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

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird