““I don’t want to live a fancy life,” she said. “The race for money is like a rat race. And the more we think we need, the worse it will get. But let’s say we can reach enough to buy ourselves a small old house out in nature that we can build out later, preferrably with some land around to grow some of our own vegetables and fruit, that would be paradise for me, really. Wouldn’t that be enough?””

— Sereno Sky, the “Lonely Traveller” novels