Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.

~ Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt Born Career Duty Dying Hope Hopelessness Nursing Home Office Retirement Spawning Want

Oddly enough you can get married and live happily ever after without spawning. Spawning is optional.

~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Merlyn Gabriel Miller Children Marriage Procreation Spawning