“I’ve known all along I’m not qualified for this—it’s not really imposter syndrome if you really are a fake.”

— Charles Stross , The Laundry Files

Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 11, “A Dead God Did It and Ran Away” (p. 347)

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