" And always walk on the shaded side of the street, so nobody tries to borrow money from you.” That was one of the lessons that took him the longest to understand: Why would someone ask to borrow money if he walked on the sunny side of the street, but not the shaded side? Idiocy, he concluded, after maturing a little and becoming a little more sensitive to the pleasant sarcasm that sometimes appeared in his father’s scarce words: "

― Sofía Segovia , The Murmur of Bees