33 quotes found
“None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.”
“Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.”
“Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.”
“In the pause that followed, Shane understood why people said their hearts broke. She always thought it was a weak metaphor of strong emotion. She could feel each bit of shrapnel from her heart stab...”
“Though denigrated by some outside academia and research, she embraced knowledge for its own sake and what better way to honor that than reveling in the intricacies of the brain? If there were any a...”
“Keep to the 'I-statements' and discuss your feelings, she lectured herself. I think, I feel. Don't be accusatory. Don't tell him that he is an insecure prick who should back off before you deck him...”
“Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it before her and, even if they had, they could not embrace ...”
“Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.”
“A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company.”
“College is a blossoming new world of genital opportunity.”
“As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her.”
“…He sounded as though he had just seen The Pokey Little Puppy meet the business end of The Little Engine That Could.”
“I missed you,” she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartb...”
