“It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.”
“Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.”
“You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.”
“This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.”
“If you don't place yourself where you could fail, you'd never have a place from where you'd succeed.”
“I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.”