“Our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunting. But if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of supreme lucidity—a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of a bold new life that we had been meant to lead all along.”

~Amor Towles, in his novel A Gentleman in Moscow