The Manual of Detection

“The unknown will always be boundless,”

There is no better way to understand your own motives and dispositions than by finding someone to act as your opposite.

And when you get right down to it, we can barely trust each other. But it’s better that way, I suppose. It keeps us thinking, keeps us guessing. Just a couple of shadows, that’s what we are. Turn the light on and that’s the end of us.”

The world was two kinds of gray—the heavy gray of the rain and the heavier, heaving gray of the water.