George Saunders

And in that space, it was really, I found that there was plenty, plenty to live for and to live happily for.

And that was a kind of a

I think I'd always secretly thought I was kind of shallow in that way, that I was all ambition.

And to find out that actually even pretty much shorn of that, I still liked being alive and still felt a lot of, you know, happiness.

And like, oh, all right, well, I'm still okay.

You know, that was very sweet.