Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but—this was the dirty secret—you needed luck.
There is such a thing as reincarnation. If you teach long enough, the same kids keep coming back again.
They lay together where they fell, and it was sweet and it was surprising, like waking up together in bed.
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.
This was her version of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll—dating a chalk artist, and teaching school.
Required personal discovery seemed like an oxymoron to Nina, but so did many other aspects of the school.
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...
We've got an acquisitive gene. We want and want, and there's no way around it.
Only the carelessly youthful and naive could have the gall to think that surviving is blessing enough
Kids can tell when teachers are trying, Collin said. It’s like how dogs smell fear.
Noah. I have
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...
I taught more than one hundred kids today—and some of them were listening
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...
No, no, no. The Rabbi raised his hands. The loan is free. Just return the eighteen hundred after the IPO. If you want to give me anything more, then you decide however to repay me. Give to tzedakah--a...
She didn’t think that she could sway the universe, but she hoped that you could nudge it with a prayer.
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...
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,
He felt poor, as well, although he didn’t consider himself poor. He considered himself free.
I want to give back. He looked at her and said in all seriousness, Why? What did you take?
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