“how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.” IfsTurnsSuccessfulAdviceProveBlameCreditBeing SuccessfulIgnoredMistakenAdviser Book:The Rest of My Life Source: The Rest of My Life
“I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world.” IfsWorldChildrenSaidBookTurnsAsksParentDarkColdPerfectionBlameGreenExpectedStaringThirtySatThey SaidShelvesHostilityLeatherNeatResent Book:A Kind of Magic Source: A Kind of Magic