Mia

“I could wait and marry you someday, but I’d much rather marry you today. Someday may never come. Today is already here. Please don’t make me wait to make you my wife.”
― J Sterling, The Sweetest Game

“There are people in the world all the time who know" the professor said. "But they keep quiet. They just move about quietly, saving the people who know they are in the trap. And then, for the ones who have got out, it's like coming around from chloroform. They realize that all their lives they've been asleep and dreaming. And then it's their turn to learn the rules and the timing. And they become the ones to live quietly in the world, just as human beings might if there were only a few human beings on a planet that had monkeys on it for inhabitants...”
― Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell

“Conversely, some of the most educated idiots I’ve ever met have a master’s degree or PhD. They couldn’t pour urine out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel!”
― Si Robertson, Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle

“I think becoming a wizard is about discovering what's real and what isn't.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot