[She's wrong though. Perhaps not on the whole but...if they were having this conversation under normal circumstances, Rip might have kept some of the details to himself. The story, however, is worth telling. Those long days had been the ones wherein he saw Ray best; those in which he truly began to respect Dr. Palmer, he thinks.

And it illustrates quite well just what benefits the man's outlook can hold, to match the potential pitfalls.

His tea's gone cold by now. Forgotten, really, as Rip turns to look at Peggy while she leans her head back. He nods slowly at her assessment, his mouth pressed in a tight line while he measures the shape of it for himself.]

There is rarely anything one might find in any world that is either simple or perfect. I believe we're both the kind of people who can't quite shake the truth of that.