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Following his lead tends to call for a somewhat flexible relationship with reality.
All exceptional people are, by definition, exceptions to the norm. If we insist on being ordinary, we can never be truly extraordinary.”
she was being rather kind, and reminding me that fortune favors the bold.”
Jackaby might have had the social graces of a brick, but I did feel fractionally better.
By request of my employer, the contents of chapter thirteen have not only been omitted; they have been pulled directly from my typewriter, shredded, and used as terrarium liner for a particularly pungent frog.
May I be the first to say that fetching dust-gray suit really brings out the color of your personality.
Behind every great man is a woman who gave up on greatness and tied herself into an apron.
“So often,” Jackaby said, “people think that when we arrive at a crossroads, we can choose only one path, but—as I have often and articulately postulated—people are stupid. We’re not walking the path. We are the path. We are all of the roads and all of the intersections. Of course you can choose both.”
You were hired for your mind, Miss Rook. I won’t have an assistant incapable of thinking for herself.”
I had to keep telling myself that nothing nefarious was taking place in the shadows beyond my curtains—a deeply inaccurate sentiment, I would come to learn, but one that brought me what little rest I could find.
“With all due respect, sir, your priorities are a curious mess.
I might be better prepared to slay dragons, I decided, than to flirt with boys.
It was the first time I had ever heard him address me by my first name. I wanted to live long enough to hear him do it again.
“the greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory.”
“Failure is not the opposite of success—it’s a part of it. And as failures go,” he added with a lopsided grin, “this one was really spectacular, wasn’t it?”
The only paths you can’t travel are the ones you block yourself—so don’t let the fear of failure stop you from trying in the first place.
