Snapshot

by Brandon Sanderson

“And you, you’re like subtly weird, Davis. Stealth weird.”

Some people were reliable even after finding out that nothing they did mattered in the slightest.

When was the last time he’d just enjoyed life? He’d lost that skill, which seemed so natural to children. They didn’t have to work at having fun.

“Being a cop, a detective on real cases, is mostly about boredom. Sitting around doing nothing, pushing paper, talking to people. Waiting. It’s about waiting for something to go wrong. And when we get called, when we have something to do, it means that by definition we’re too late.