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"It's a nightmare existence here. The grass isn't greener on the other side when your whole world is scorched earth." Esther on returning to university

"Studies show, that in general, optimists die 10 years earlier than pessimists."

"But who can remember pain once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind."

"How were we to know we were happy."

"Just as conveniently there were several plausible explanations for his (Christopher Columbus) failure to find any spices...and of course European's did not know what spices looked like in the wild anyway."

"One of the privileges of wealth is the option to emulate the lifestyles of the rural poor. Wealth tends to distance people from working on the land. Indeed, not having to be a farmer is another way to define wealth."

I had learned much about law at Yale, but I'd also learned that this new world would always seem a bit foreign to me, and that being a hillbilly meant sometimes not knowing the difference between love and war.