The Chemist

by Stephenie Meyer

“Exactly. We build up these ideas of people, create the one we want to be with, and then try to keep the real person inside the false mold. It doesn’t always work out well.”

There was something so luxurious about the idea of being able to sleep and travel at the same time.

As someone who knew better than most the kind of darkness that went on behind the scenes and how little any of the important decisions had to do with the figurehead spokesperson the people elected, it was hard for her to care much about left or right.

It’s like the difference between… between reading about gravity and then falling for the first time.”

the best thing about obsessive-compulsive disorder was the cozy high you got from a tidy space.

Sometimes you cling to a mistake simply because it took so long to make.”