This quote though❤️

"Kakuro's great-niece is called Yoko. She is ten. She's the prettiest little girl on earth! And adorable too. She chirps and babbles and clucks and looks at people with the same kindly, open gaze as her great-uncle. And when we ate some chocolate cake, she listened and gazed at us sweetly with her big eyes( and with chocolate upto her eyebrows).

Looking at her, I wondered, "Is she going to end up like all the others too?" I tried to picture her ten years older, blase, with high-rise boots and a cigarette dangling from her mouth, and then another ten years later in a sanitized decor waiting for her kids to come home whilst she plays the good Japanese wife and mummy. But it didn't work.

And I felt extraordinarily happy. Its the first time in my life that I met someone whose fate is not predictable, someone whose path in life still remains open, someone who is fresh and full of possibility. I also knew this wasn't just an illusion connected with her young age, because none of my parents' friends' little kids have made that sort of impression on me. I wondered if anyone had looked at kakuro the way I looked at Yoko, with delight and curiosity, just waiting to see the butterfly emerging from its cocoon, not knowing, yet trusting, the purpose of its wings."

-- Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

I don't know, such quotes warm the cockles of my heart!!!!