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

by Amor Towles

It goes without saying that our lives are intricate and multifaceted. But they also tend to have a larger arc that takes us from a position of youthful self-assurance through a period of setbacks, leading to a third phase in which, if we’re lucky, we’ve confronted our limitations and become deeper people ready to lead richer lives.”

I would have happily been an asshole for thirty years in order to be wise for another fifty.”