But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.

— Zoë Heller

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and gives them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune...

— Plutarch