Consider the greatest riddle of all – what you should do with your one brief life? The answer is different for each person. There is no neat answer, though many have tried to offer one. There are no answers to being alive. There are only strong pieces of advice. […] For example stop expecting life to get easier. It never does. That is not where its goodness lies. Or do not wait for people to be faultless before you allow yourself to adore them. Adore them anyway.

Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures, S. 168