She didn’t give a damn. She had a list of what she didn’t like, and almost everything—and everybody—in Lychford was on it.

Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford

Consider also:

  1. Theoretical Animals
  2. “There are not enough books here. The sight of the bare shelves shames me. What have I done?”
  3. ‘Where there’s a key,’ he said to himself, ‘there must be a lock nearby.’
  4. “Just like a computer, your brain has a search function—but it’s even more phenomenal than a computer’s. It seems to be programmed by what we focus on and, more primarily, what we identify with. It’s the seat of what many people have referred to as the paradigms we maintain. We notice only what matches our internal belief systems and identified contexts”
  5. “These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic. Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise.”