Julia

“Though the conference I’d received a grant to attend was still a few months off, it was already starting to bug me. The plane could crash. I could be raped and murdered. I could get stress cancer from excessive dread beforehand. To put it succinctly, my life could be torn asunder. All in the attempt to score a few idiotic career advancement points with my department chair and a colleague who hardly knew what my name was and certainly had no idea what my research interests were.”
― J.S. Drangsholt, The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter

“I can do the one hundred things beyond the next thing, but I stub my toe on that,”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“These findings strengthen the argument that the brain exerts some kind of control over specific body parts according to how strongly we own them.”
― Heather Fraser, The Peanut Allergy Epidemic: What's Causing It and How to Stop It

“spider ever existed. Later I would think about that spider, wondering what its message to us might have been and how it might have made a difference if we had all paid attention.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, The Things We Wish Were True