Dumb and decent can often look the same. It’s depressing, but the truth often is.
Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard [Amazon, Bookshop, Local Library]
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She prayed often. Her brain took refuge in rituals.
Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
suspected Illuminatus, Lieutenant Franz Hebenstreit von Streitenfeld. The latter attended the meetings often, and expressed such Illuminist, utopian socialist views as “human misery would continue so long as men said ‘mine’ and ‘thine’ and refused to have things in common.”
Terry Melanson, Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
He had a special feeling for what he called the “correct miscalculation,” for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers. This gave us confidence even when our best efforts came to nothing.
Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel
