Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

He’d not had much experience with families, but he’d always assumed that being part of one was important: a prerequisite for stability, what one relied on to get through the hard times. He’d never really considered that a family could actually be the hard times.

“Because humans are animals. Technically. Although sometimes I think the animals we consider animals are far more advanced than the animals we are but don’t consider ourselves to be.”

What a mess devotion was.

Because while stupid people may not know they’re stupid because they’re stupid, surely unattractive people must know they’re unattractive because of mirrors. Not that there was anything wrong with being unattractive.

Only Mr. Sloane was ugly, and that was because he was unattractive on the inside.

here she was, a single mother, the lead scientist on what had to be the most unscientific experiment of all time:

The problem with being a minister was how many times a day he had to lie. This was because people needed constant reassurance that things were okay or were going to be okay instead of the more obvious reality that things were bad and were only going to get worse.