Susannah Nix > Quotes

“Her feelings for Jeremy were like Schrodinger’s Crush. As long as she didn’t open the box, their relationship existed in a state of quantum superposition: both possible and impossible at the same time.”
― Susannah Nix, Remedial Rocket Science

“It’s not about the action figures,” Melody said. “It’s about how the people making decisions at these companies view women, and it’s about little girls who grow up thinking only boys can be heroes because that’s all they ever see. People say, ‘Oh, it’s only movies,’ or ‘It’s only TV, it doesn’t matter,’ but stories matter. They’re our cultural mythology. They shape the lens through which we see the world .”
― Susannah Nix, Remedial Rocket Science

“Love should be a partnership that builds you up and frees you to be the person you’re meant to be”
― Susannah Nix, Cream and Punishment

“Wherever you go, you always take yourself with you.”
― Susannah Nix, Remedial Rocket Science

“You’re good. If you want to do this, then you should do it. Don’t make up reasons why you can’t.”
― Susannah Nix, My Cone and Only

“I’m fine,” I assured her. “Are you scared?” Sandra asked. I shrugged. “Not really.” “Bull pucky,” Sandra retorted. “Sandra!” Elizabeth nudged her friend with her elbow. “No, I mean it.” Sandra crossed her arms and arched an eyebrow at me. “That's a load of steaming bovine dooky.”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“I just think you shouldn't be dating anyone you don't want to be friends with. If you're looking for a real partner, there's got to more more than just sexual attraction there. You should be looking for someone you actually enjoy spending time with. Ideally, you're looking for a best friend.”
― Susannah Nix, Intermediate Thermodynamics

“It’s ridiculous that women are supposed to keep their functional, biologically necessary, baby-feeding nipples covered up while men get to walk around with their weird, useless, vestigial nips hanging out in public.”
― Susannah Nix, My Cone and Only

“So, what do you say? Want to be my date for what is absolutely guaranteed to be a miserable evening—and before you answer, please remember I brought you a muffin.”
― Susannah Nix, Remedial Rocket Science

“Do you like cooking shows?” she asked, her eyes skittering away bashfully. “There’s this one I’ve been watching on YouTube—Angie got me hooked on it.” “I love cooking shows.” I leaned forward to snag the remote off the table and handed it to her. “Show me.” We settled back to watch a charming young woman attempt to replicate Girl Scout cookies. It was both amusing and stressful, and as the show’s host veered off task to clean the microwave and tried to reject the assistance of the other kitchen staffers, insisting that she worked better alone when she so clearly needed help, I began to understand why Dawn liked it so much.”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“Wow, you have a lot of characters.” “Yeah, I like to try all the powers out. I’m kind of a perma-lowbie by nature.” “What does that mean?” “It means I like the early part of the game better than the endgame. I’d rather keep rolling up new characters than max out my existing ones.” “You seem to have a preference for melee classes over ranged classes.”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“I loved listening to her talk. I’d happily listen to her read one of those software terms of service agreements just to hear the sound of her voice.”
― Susannah Nix, My Cone and Only

“Somehow this information felt like a personal betrayal, as if bananas had been lying to her as part of some vast fruit conspiracy her whole life.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“His blue eyes were brimming with affection. Too much affection. It was painful to look at. Like stepping out of a dark building into blinding sunlight.”
― Susannah Nix, Intermediate Thermodynamics

“Men,” Linda harrumphed from her chair by the window. “Can’t live with them, can’t tip the lot of them into a volcano and start society over without ’em.”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“Slow walkers were a scourge upon the city streets. It was all very well to live a leisurely, low-stress life, taking plenty of time to stop and smell the roses—so long as you did it off to one side so those of us with somewhere to be could get past you.”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“I reached for my wine and took a drink, even though I didn’t really like wine. Jessica was right, it was too oaky. Drinking it was like licking the underside of a coffee table.”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“Don’t make up reasons why you can’t.”
― Susannah Nix, My Cone and Only

“it from you for so long.” “You don’t need to be embarrassed.” I shook my head because it didn’t work that way. Shame couldn’t be erased so easily. It was sticky like chewing gum and embedded itself in everything it touched.”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“It would also be up to the oncologist to determine during the surgery whether I got to keep my ovaries. Unlike a simple hysterectomy, an oophorectomy would deprive my body of estrogen and progesterone, plunging me into sudden, premature menopause with all its attendant horrors. If that happened, I could look forward to an increased risk of depression, anxiety, heart disease, arthritis, and bone loss. This was in addition to the usual side effects of menopause like hot flashes, fatigue, mood swings, and vaginal dryness, which were typically more intense for women who hadn’t started menopause naturally”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“I was going to try making some bibs. I never realized how much babies spit up. She’s constantly leaking from one end or the other.” As he spoke, I noticed a telltale white stain on the front of his shirt. “Speaking of, you seem to have a little on your shirt.” He looked down at his chest, licked his thumb, and tried to wipe away the stain. “Ah well.” He shrugged, giving up and flashing me a cockeyed grin. “Spit-up happens.”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“What the hell did people do before electricity and television and the internet?” “I think most of them worked themselves half to death just to stay alive.” “Okay, but what about rich white people with servants to do all the work for them? How the hell did they pass the time?” She thought about all the costume dramas she’d watched. “I believe their lives were so dull they considered a turn about the room entertainment.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“Yeah, but no one really changes their own oil anymore, do they? I wouldn’t have minded learning something like this. I never developed any hobbies—except video games, which don’t really count.” “Do you enjoy them?” I asked. “Yeah.” He shrugged. “It’s a fun way to pass the time anyway.” “The whole point of a hobby is to be pleasurable, relaxing, and rewarding,” I told him. “So if playing video games feels that way to you, it totally counts as a hobby.” “I’m not sure about rewarding,” he said, “but it’s definitely the other two.”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“Ohh, what are you knitting?” Sandra asked Angie, deftly changing the subject. “It’s an anatomically correct model of a human uterus,” Angie replied. “I’m giving it to Dawn as a consolation prize.” My head snapped around to stare at her in horror. “What?” Angie snort-laughed. “Kidding. It’s a Peppa Pig for one of my nieces.” Sandra’s lip curled in an expression of distaste. “I rue the day that bacon-limbed hellspawn entered the children’s television landscape. It’s all I hear in the pediatric ward all day long. That precocious, insufferable little pig haunts my dreams.”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“There was no sense fantasizing about something she wasn’t capable of. Better not to let yourself want it in the first place, so you wouldn’t be disappointed when you didn’t get it.”
― Susannah Nix, Experimental Marine Biology

“Thank you to Fiona Fischer and Brooke Nowiski for your patience, organization, attention to detail, and for helping make the rest of us look good.”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“Do you game with the lights out?” “Not usually, no.” I wasn’t quite that much of a cat-asser. Despite the high number of hours I sank into my hobby, my playstyle was more of a casual gamer than a powergamer.”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“A storm this bad used to be an every ten to twenty years kind of event. But with climate change they’re practically an annual occurrence these days.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“I’m sure you had your reasons, and it doesn’t change how I see about you.”
― Susannah Nix, Mad About Ewe

“The halls of IT history were littered with the bodies of people who thought something would be fine when it wasn’t, and the stakes were high because it was power.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism