"Julia took a thin sip of thirty years of history and tasted multiple wars; economic recessions; iconic acts of terror; the rise of consumer electronics; Catholic school; kids are cruel; Accutane; learning to drive; meals every day; global ecological degradation; crying in the rain."
"Richard Dawkins put it brilliantly in Unweaving the Rainbow: 'We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born...We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred.'"
