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

There were three things I knew with absolute certainty: The scientific method was humanity’s greatest invention, a vodka martini was best served dirty, and Corban Nash was an impostor posing as a scientist.

Claire knows to write a hook

And there I stood in a crisp white blouse and herringbone skirt, tapping the toe of my practical black pump, like an irritated librarian on the verge of hushing a noisy study group. But a librarian I was not, and this wasn’t a library.

“Well, if you need a test subject, I can give you my number,” she said. “For science.”

“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

“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

“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

“If she has the power to fuck up your insides this much, you only have two choices.” “Yeah?” “Get as far away from her as you can so you never have to see her again.” My gut churned at the thought. “Or?” “Marry her.”

“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

“I wonder how they learned to do that,” Hazel said. “At what point did an otter reach out to clasp a neighboring otter’s appendage and hold on? And how many instances of napping that way did it take before it began to spread through the larger otter population?”

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

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

I’m angry because I should be his penguin.”

“Hell yes, you should be his penguin,” someone said behind me.