Khanh

“Family is a Greek tragedy. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Can’t let them in, can’t cut them out. It’s real nice, until it sucks.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Sister Snake

“If he doesn’t like the way his bridge partner plays out a hand, for example, he might say, “You played that like a plumber,” but if he wants to offer serious counsel to one of his children, he is more likely to couch the message in an anecdote, preferably delivered in a group setting so that no one is singled out. In both instances, he appears blunt and avuncular—that inimitable Charlie—but at the card table, he uses a lack of indirection for harmless ribbing, and at the dinner table, he uses indirection to spare feelings. He’s more subtle than he appears.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

“One seed turns bone to flesh, or beast to human,” the voice went on tauntingly. “Two seeds give everlasting youth. Three seeds for karmic enlightenment. And four seeds, a deity’s ascension.”
― Amanda Lee Koe, Sister Snake