
“She laughed. 'Ahh, Donna, luv, I've missed you.' She leaned forward. 'And you've no need to race anywhere; you've already won the biggest of all races--'
'What race? Aside from that screenplay competition--which is the most amazing thing ever--I've never won a thing in my life.'
'The night your father spent himself inside your mother he unleashed a billion sperm cells inside of her.'
'Oh, Jeezes, Elly--'
'That's the population of India, luv--all swimming for that one egg. And you outswam them all. There, what does that tell you--you won there, didn't you?'
'I--never quite thought of it that way.”
―
Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist
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