Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

while we may be born into families, it doesn’t necessarily mean we belong to them.”

Replead case. Quit. Set fire to the building.

“A woman telling me what pregnancy is. Who do you think you are?”

fall. He’d failed once to protect someone he loved. He would not fail again.

Rob a bank. Rob a jewelry store. Or here was a loathsome idea—go back to the place that had robbed her.

“Or you could try my bowie knife,” Harriet suggested. “Let them know where you stand.”

complicated series of nautical knots—a skill she practiced frequently, including in the dark, in the rain, without help, just in case.

“that God is just a bit different from Yahtzee.” “Agreed,” Elizabeth said. “Yahtzee is fun.”

But he hadn’t told Elizabeth because he knew she’d take matters into her own hands.