Happiness for Beginners

by Katherine Center

“Girls can’t pee in bottles,” I said. He glanced over. “I bet you could. If you tried.” Was he complimenting or insulting me?

“You’ll figure it out.” “What if I don’t?” “Then you’ll die,” Beckett said with a shrug. “And I’ll use my one stick of dynamite to make it look like an avalanche.”

happy people are more likely to register joy than unhappy people. So if you take two people who have experienced a day of, say, fifty percent good things and fifty percent bad things, an unhappy person would remember more of the bad.”