Overtree

“Life doesn’t have to provide you any options at all. It can easily define your course from the outset and keep you in check through all manner of rough and subtle mechanics. To have even one year when you’re presented with choices that can alter your circumstances, your character, your course—that’s by the grace of God alone. And it shouldn’t come without a price.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“She had fine features and blue eyes and pinpoint dimples so perfectly defined that it seemed like there must be a small steel cable fastened to the center of each inner cheek which grew taut when she smiled.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“I was never sure what Grimace was or why he was named after a pained facial expression.”
― Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

“I love Val. I love my job and my New York. I have no doubt that they were the right choices for me. And at the same time, I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility