You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Forward Collection, #4)

by Amor Towles

But our strengths don’t serve us well in every circumstance at every phase of our lives. As we grow and enter new contexts, our longer-term strengths can suddenly hamper our worldly progress, which in turn can create dissonance at home.

We are who we are, right? There’s no point in pushing our personalities uphill.”

But our genes don’t merely express who we are. They contain all manner of talents from previous generations that we may not benefit from personally but that can be passed on to our progeny.

“Oh,” replied HT. “I didn’t say it was Annie’s third act. We’re fairly certain that she’s still in her second.”

“Because genetics is the future of defense.”