It was March in Mississippi and there were enough new leaves on the trees to deny me a clear view of thesky. So I navigated by guesswork. Or dead reckoning, assome people prefer to call it. Which is hard to do, in aforest. Most right-handed people end up walking widecounterclockwise circles, because most right-handedpeople have left legs fractionally shorter than their right legs. Basic biology and geometry. I avoided thatparticular peril by stepping to the right of every tenthtree I came to, whether I thought I needed to or not. - P299
She said, ‘I agree. It‘s time to shake something loose.
If you want to know if the stove is hot, sometimes theonly way to find out is to touch it.‘
‘You must have been a pretty good cop.‘
‘I still am a pretty good cop.‘ - P330