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“One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.”
― Alan Bradley, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches

“We can all talk to the dead. It’s getting them to talk back that’s the hard part.”2”
― Bruce M. Hood, The Science of Superstition

“Memory is like a long, dark street, illuminated at intervals in a light so bright that it shows up every detail. And then one plunges into the dark stretch again.”
― Susan Hill, Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home

“But gratitude can be the very devil sometimes, particularly if you have to be grateful for services you’d rather be without.”
― P.D. James, The Black Tower