“I don’t think it would actually make you happier to be told you were right about this,” he said finally.
“I don’t want to be happy,” Dahl said. “I just want to know.”

—  John Scalzi, book Redshirts

Source: Redshirts (2012), Chapter 23 (p. 229)

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