" If Porter had some of Elliot’s workout regime, if Elliot had some of his siblings’ ease in their own bodies, if Nicky had some of Elliot’s inertia, and if Porter had some of Nicky’s charisma, then she might have one perfect child. They were all perfect, of course, in their own ways, insomuch that they were each perfectly their own tangle of positives and negatives, but together, if plucked just so, they could have made one flawless human. Astrid knew it wasn’t a fair way to think about her children, but there it was. "

― Emma Straub , All Adults Here