“Being right was largely a matter of explanations.”
“Everything could come to a crashing end for us if we were caught, but it didn’t matter. Right now, being with him seemed worth whatever consequence could come from it. This was right, like it was meant to be. There was no logical explanation for it.”
“With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.”
“Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.”
“Historians are not by and large inclined to supernatural explanations, but they are addicted to a near equivalent - 'inevitability'.”
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”