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81 " Don’t make up reasons why you can’t. "
― Susannah Nix , My Cone and Only (King Family, #1)
82 " You can put your faith in anything you want, so long as it gives you hope and makes the world a little more wondrous. "
― Susannah Nix , Applied Electromagnetism (Chemistry Lessons, #4)
83 " And for the record, I wasn’t blessed with a high charisma score. I actually have to work at it, which is what most people do. "
84 " All I know is, when the landlord stopped in to tell us about the water main repairs, you were so surly I think you actually scared him a little. And I didn’t think anything could scare Quinn Sullivan. "
― Susannah Nix , Mad About Ewe (Common Threads #1)
85 " He was like her mirror opposite in that way. She had always made a show of pretending to be sweet around the people she worked with to hide the fact she was actually sarcastic and sharp-tongued underneath. But Adam hid all his sweetness behind a prickly exterior that seemed designed to keep people at arm’s length. "
86 " Good grits required patience and a cavalier attitude about your cholesterol levels. "
87 " Until you’ve spent your entire life navigating misogyny, maybe don’t criticize how I choose to do it. "
88 " But what I’m saying is I feel it more than is normal. And it’s not just something I can decide to get over, because it’s neurological and genetic. The messages my brain is sending me are worse than the messages your brain sends you. "
89 " 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. She was too much of a wimp to find out whether the cat was alive or dead. "
― Susannah Nix , Remedial Rocket Science (Chemistry Lessons, #1)
90 " 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. "
91 " You’re good. If you want to do this, then you should do it. Don’t make up reasons why you can’t. "
92 " Maybe the problem wasn’t Penny. Maybe the problem was men. "
― Susannah Nix , Advanced Physical Chemistry (Chemistry Lessons, #3)
93 " Penny was surrounded by nauseatingly happy couples. On the one hand, it gave her hope that maybe one day she'd find her perfect match too. But on the other, it highlighted how much of a failure she was in the relationship department. "
94 " She was a woman in a predominantly male field, and if she didn’t put in the extra effort to suck up and make friends, it would bite her in the ass professionally. "
95 " People had a tendency to look right through her, or right past her, or right over the top of her five foot three inches. "
96 " Life isn’t an experiment, it’s an experience. By refusing to believe in anything that can’t be measured by empirical evidence, you’re closing yourself off to wonder and the comfort of belief. "
97 " The cartoons she’d watched as a kid had given the impression life would have a lot more quicksand. "