“The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.”
“Chance favors only those who court her.”
“Chance gives a smile to the one who is ready to take it”
“I am not one of those young ladies who are so daring to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time.”
“She's one of those people who are like Slinkies.""Slinkies?""Yeah. Basically useless, but they make you smile when you push them down the stairs.”
“That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.”