Tag: Featured
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Lessons in Chemistry
“When you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself back. No more subscribing to others’ opinions of what you can and cannot achieve. And no more allowing anyone to pigeonhole you into useless categories of sex, race, economic status, and religion. Do not allow your talents to lie dormant, ladie
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Book Lovers
“That’s life. You’re always making decisions, taking paths that lead you away from the rest before you could see where they ended. Maybe that’s why we s a species love stories so much. All those chances for do-overs, opportunities to live the lives we’ll never have.”
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Our Little World
“How had I not realized this by now? The impact of small things. Small-very-big things. Each-in-the-moment decision leading to the next. Like rungs on a ladder.”
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Unapologetically Enough
“I’ve never been a patient person. I’ve always felt like I was racing against an invisible ticking time bomb somewhere. My perfection and desire to know how things worked out, in the end, got the best of me.”
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April Wrap-Up
I read 17 books; 2 of which were re-reads and I somehow managed to read 3 Book of the Months (whaaat). It was a month full of some excellent reads and a few that I plan to read again.
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Sea of Tranquility
“… we still don’t know why one person gets sick, another doesn’t, or why one patient survives, and another dies. Illness frightens us because it’s chaotic. There’s awful randomness about it.”
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The Cartographers
“Maps were love letters written to times and places their markers explored. They did not control the territory — they told its stories.”
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The Wedding Veil
“My entire life, that veil had been a symbol of happiness, but I realized that, for me, its significance wasn’t even really about marriage. It was the connection that touching it, wearing it, seeing it, made me feel to Babs and mom, to my great-grandmother, and Aunt Alice.”
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The Younger Wife
“Perhaps the very worst people still had some good in them. And perhaps the very best had some bad.”
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Station Eleven
“First, we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.”
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The Tobacco Wives
“Imagine living like that. Not having to hold your breath every time the checkout girl rings up your groceries, not having the shame when you have to put something back. Not having to worry. ”
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Weather Girl
“That’s the thing about depression. You can know it’s there, know it’s part of you, but you can go ages without seeing it. It lives with you, an invisible roommate.”
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An American Marriage
than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.”
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The Boys Club
shoved the feeling that I was somehow betraying my own sex out of my mind. It was all too easily replaced by the sweetness of inclusion.”
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The Nature of Fragile Things
“It is the nature of the earth to shift. It is the nature of fragile things to break. It is the nature of fire to burn. And just as it is the nature of men and women to build, it is also in our nature to begin again after disaster. This I know, too.”
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One Italian Summer
“There is beauty to the run-down buildings, the laundry strung overhead, the rhythm and drawl of the daily life here. There is beauty, too, in the old Mediterranean architecture, buildings left over from centuries ago, before Naples became what is today. There is beauty in discrepancy — two things that seem oppositional, coming together.”
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Black Cake
“Sometimes, the stories we don’t tell people about ourselves matter even more than the things we do say.”
The Bookend Diner 