Amor Towles
Chapter Twenty-Four: Thy Kingdom Come
—If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us, he said, then there wouldn’t be so much fuss about love in the first place.
The Matter of Seggri (2003)
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Birthday of the World: and Other Stories
I want very much to live among my people, to learn who they are, now that I know with at least an uncertainty who I am.
Womb (2010)
“It's almost incomprehensible. Billions of amazingly complex patterns permanently whirling about us that never repeat themselves.”