Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.

We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.

Dig deep & pull the roots of confidence from the ground of your being, standing firm in the raging storm until sunlight blossoms inside you.

It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one's true love.

Use two-way communication on oral exams to check the students' knowledge, not their attitudes. Checking attitudes can lead to the slippery area of subjective assessment.

When the shit hits the fan, you really have to ask yourself why you weren't sitting on the toilet.

You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.

He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

They were actually sitting at a table, like two old friends, not like the hunterand the hunted. And it wasn't especially awkward. They were comfortable together,despite the fact that she'd hit him wit...

She couldn't bring herself to care, because those moment she spent brawling were the few moments she felt like herself again.

Rough times. Qhuinn shrugged. And I'm not interested in saints.Really? You're in love with one, Layla chimed in.As Qhuinn glanced over at Blay, his mismatched eyes narrowed. Damn straight I am, he sai...

Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her...long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite's cabin: that to be recognized as...

Jon wanted nothing more. , he had to tell himself, . The realization twisted in his belly like a knife. They had chosen him to rule. The Wall was his, and their lives were his as well. he could hear...