Fed

“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.”
― A. Lee Martinez

“The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love