Vaishnavi Jayakumar

“Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Hot summer nights, mid-July, when you and I were forever wild.”
― Franz Kafka

“The fact is that in two unhappy years, working in isolation except for Gosling, in a field new to her, she had come within two steps of answering the most exciting question in post-war science. What is more, she, unknowingly, had provided all the essential data for those who took the two brilliant leaps of intuition — to anti-parallel chains and base pairs — that cracked the problem.”
― Brenda Maddox, Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

“a good student could learn more from a bad teacher than a poor student from even a skilled teacher.”
― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire: An Autobiography