A review by ladyfives
Beastly Bones by William Ritter

4.0

"So often, people think that when we arrive at a crossroads, we can choose only one path, but - as I have often and articulately postulated - people are stupid. We're not walking the path. We are the path. We are all of the roads and all of the intersections. Of course you can choose both."

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Jackaby shook his head. "Miss Rook," he said, "the greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory." He put a hand on my shoulder. "Failure is not the opposite of success - it's a part of it. And as failures go," he added with a lopsided grin, "this one was really spectacular, wasn't it?"

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"That's nonsense," said Jackaby. "Fortune favours the prepared. Unless you're talking about the Fates, in which case fortune generally favours Zeus. Were you talking about the Fates?"