“He was thinking about Katerina. In particular, he was thinking – with a sense of foreboding – that in the course of twenty years this firefly, this pinwheel, this wonder of the world had become a woman who, when asked where she was going, could answer without the slightest hesitation: Does it matter?”

“He was thinking about Katerina. In particular, he was thinking – with a sense of foreboding – that in the course of twenty years this firefly, this pinwheel, this wonder of the world had become a woman who, when asked where she was going, could answer without the slightest hesitation: Does it matter?”

— Amor Towles