Elif Batuman quote ✍️

When you think about all the infinitely many galaxies and combinations of DNA, and against all those odds you meet this person - it's a miracle...' 'Right,' I said. I couldn't imagine viewing Bill's presence on Earth as any kind of a miracle, but wasn't that itself the miracle - that love really was an obscure and unfathomable connection between individuals, and not an economic contest where everyone was matched up by how quantifiably lovable they are?

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you — even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, …

She hesitated, wiping her hands off on her apron. “I’m not sure if I’ll be here when you get back. This place is a little — it’s a little much for me.” She didn’t have to tell him …

[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective, begin to see the patterns and dead ends of …