Falling for My Enemy (Dirty Martini Running Club, #2)

by Claire Kingsley

To nerdy girls and geeky boys. Love what you love, and love it hard, especially if it sets your soul on fire.

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ~ C.G. Jung

“Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalizing mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that’s part of the game.” ~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“A swan. People consider them beautiful and assume their outward appearance means they’re friendly. But if you approach a swan, especially during nesting season, it can become aggressive if it thinks it needs to defend its territory.”

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” ~ Rumi

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” ~ Charles M. Schulz

“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite their best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise. For some people, it’s love. Others, money or alcohol. Mine was worse: calculus.” ~ Sarah Dessen

“Occam’s Razor is the scientific principle that, all things being equal, the simplest explanation is always the dog ate my homework.” ~ Greg Tamblyn

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” ~ Albert Einstein

“I think lovemaking is a lost art.” ~Pedram Shojai

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.” ~ Friedrich Nietzche

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.” ~ Richard P. Feynman

“Mathematics may not teach us how to add love or how to minus hate. But it gives every reason to hope that every problem has a solution.” ~ Anonymous

“Relationships are the most transformational space, whether it’s with your children, your parents, or your loved ones, because you can’t control the other person.” ~ Neil Strauss

“When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Unlike many lizard species, long-tailed skinks raise their offspring. But if a mother skink feels too threatened, she’ll eat her babies.”

“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“We all have relationship issues that we’re going to need to work on. All of us. It’s just part of human nature. The only question is going to be with whom.” ~ Esther Perel

“Otters hold hands when they sleep,” I blurted out. “And sometimes they form otter rafts of up to a hundred individuals. Sleeping in the water provides protection from predators, but they hold onto each other so they don’t drift apart.”

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite.” ~ Roberto Bolaño

“Math is like love—a simple idea, but it can get complicated.” ~ Anonymous

“Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.” ~ William Paul Thurston

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Marie Curie

“In high school, a teacher said there are few things as exhausting and ultimately useless as changing who you are to get people to like you.

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” ~ Bertrand Russell

“Scientists are the peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.” ~ Arthur Koestler

“Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.” ~Larry Niven

“Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.” Deepak Chopra

“Erwin. I get it. Erwin Schrodinger. Schrodinger’s cat. That’s funny.”

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” ~Albert Schweitzer

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” ~ Mother Teresa

“Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Happiness studies show that across cultures and socioeconomic groups, the one thing that defines people’s lifetime happiness is the quality of their relationships. Not wealth, education, career, or social status. Nothing predicts happiness as conclusively as close, meaningful relationships.”

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” ~ Carl Sagan

“Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn’t last.” ~ Marie Curie

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” ~ Walter Winchell

“The derivative for my love for you is 0, because my love for you is constant.” ~ Anonymous

“The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don’t die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.” ~ Mike Norton

“Love is the most powerful form of energy, but science cannot decipher its elements. Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love, but even the most advanced physician cannot prescribe it as medicine.” ~ Suzy Kassem

“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Love was truly a remarkable phenomenon.

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~ Lao Tzu