We've got an acquisitive gene. We want and want, and there's no way around it.
Robin, he chided her. He wanted to tell her all this would happen to her, too, that her luck would turn as well. But he had no good arguments for this, and she had no reason to believe him. Such luck...
Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.
Only the carelessly youthful and naive could have the gall to think that surviving is blessing enough
There is such a thing as reincarnation. If you teach long enough, the same kids keep coming back again.
The roses bloomed, thousands of them in a floral amphitheater, blossoms shading from gold and coral at the top of the garden to scarlet and deep pink on tiers below. At the bottom, in the center of th...
There were three wedding cakes, curious and historical but tasty, each labeled with a calligraphed card:Plumb Cake with currants, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, salt, citron, orange peel candied, flour, eggs...
Required personal discovery seemed like an oxymoron to Nina, but so did many other aspects of the school.
She didn’t think that she could sway the universe, but she hoped that you could nudge it with a prayer.
The only thing you care about is the beginning and the end. You can never be in the middle; you can never actually be with someone or learn something or get something done, because you’re always start...
He felt poor, as well, although he didn’t consider himself poor. He considered himself free.
I taught more than one hundred kids today—and some of them were listening
Kids can tell when teachers are trying, Collin said. It’s like how dogs smell fear.
Jeanne’s sisters thought nothing of themselves.... Helen stayed up late in Brookline, baking. Lemon squares, and brownies, pecan bars, apple cake, sandy almond cookies. Alone in her kitchen, she wrapp...
She herself vacillated when it came to belief. She did not particularly believe in God. Or, rather, she didn't believe in a particular God. Nevertheless, she kept an open mind. She was not a melanchol...
On breezy days when the wind was not too light and not too strong, Will and Pamela and the children flew their homemade kites in Peaceful Park until they were specks in the blue sky. When the wind was...
They lay together where they fell, and it was sweet and it was surprising, like waking up together in bed.
Though experience should be our guide . . . and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-three, it must be acknowledged that not every youthful feeling begins unworthily and ends in error. If t...
Sometimes its like Nathaniel Hawthorne is trying to be deep.
People ask every day, Why was I put on earth? As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other,
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