“And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.”

“When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”

“Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”

“But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.”

“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”

“She'd liked things better when everything had been controlled simply by on and off switches and when push-button telephone and telly remotes were as far as technology had gone. Make a few calls and put the burden of information searching on someone else. That was the ticket. Now, however, things were different. It was the investigator's mental shoe leather that got worn down, not the real thing.”