"Courtesy of tongue," said Rowena, "when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown."
Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions.
Looking back, it was Mr. Whittier’s stand that we’re always right.
“It’s not a matter of right and wrong,” Mr. Whittier would say.
Really, there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality.
You can never set off to do thewrongthing.
You can never say thewrongthing.
In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take—what you do or say or how you choose to appear—is automatically right the moment you act.
His hand shaking as he lifts his cup, Mr. Whittier says, “Even if you were to tell yourself, ‘Today, I’m going to drink coffee thewrongway. . . from a dirty boot.’
Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot.” Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right.
Even when you say, “I’m such an idiot, I’m so wrong. . .” you’re right. You’re right about being wrong. You’re right even when you’re an idiot. “No matter how stupid your idea,” Mr. Whittier would say, “you’re doomed to be right because it’s yours.”
If a prediction is right, then it’s like you only have one future. Like that future has been decided. But if it’s wrong, then you have an almost infinite number of possibilities. And that means that even the tiniest twist of fate can change your future. I want to believe that I have choices – that the path I walk has many different turns, and many different roads to follow!
I mean, maybe you're doing something wrong, but if it's what's meant to be, if it's what's right, does that really make you a bad person?
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She felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible.
Episode 19