Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of y — Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck
Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of y — Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck
Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of y — Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck
Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of y — Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck
Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of y — Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck
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Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

— Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck
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