“It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.”
“If Emrys was acting normally, like the typical self-gratifying narcissist he was, then it would have been easier to keep him in that special category of potential enemy.”
“If not, well, Libby didn't care anymore. She'd turn 17 in a few months, and that was practically 18”
“In a wife I would desire / What in whores is always found / The lineaments of gratified desire.”
“Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.”
“Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.”