Miranda

“I believe neither in luck nor in destiny,” he declared. “I trust only the science of probabilities. I have studied mathematical statistics, combinatorial analysis, mass function, and random variables, and they have never held any surprises for me. You don’t seem fully to grasp the destabilizing effect that someone like you can have on someone like me.”
― Christelle Dabos, A Winter's Promise / The Missing of Clairdelune / The Memory of Babel

“Keep an open mind,” he told me, “for no man can say what can or cannot be, nor can he say what does or does not exist.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods

“One does not need education to be intelligent, and these men might be short on what educated men use in the way of information, but their wits were sharp, their minds were alert, they were prepared to move, to change, to adapt at the slightest need. “All about them were conditions and circumstances to which they must adjust, attack by Indians or outlaw trappers was an ever-present danger, they lived on the very knife-edge of reality, and when this is so, the mind becomes a beautifully tuned instrument.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods

“Burglary’s more fun than socializing, I always say.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Whispering Skull