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“The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time,”
― Coming Up for Air
― Coming Up for Air
“But maybe efficiency isn’t all it’s held up to be. Maybe it’s the inefficiencies and mistakes that give us the best impetus to change and grow and improve.”
― The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man
― The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man
“Every time we are faced with a choice, and we are faced with them every minute of every day, we make a decision to follow its course into the future. But what of the abandoned options? Are they like unopened doors? Do alternative futures lie beyond them? How far would we wander from the course we have steered were we to go back and, just once, open Door A instead of Door B?”
― The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
― The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
“Their hands never touched, not even in an accidental brushing, and that was a good thing, for real intimacy has a dawn.”
― The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
― The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
“We all act on what we know, what we see, what we are told and how we feel. The simple fact of the matter is that not a single one of us operates under identical influences. That is why the future is always uncertain.”
― The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
― The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
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