Sarah B

“Same here, but my limit is fifty pages. I've never understood people who grind through a book they don't really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason. Tessa was like that. She would toss a book after the first chapter, then pick it up and grumble and growl for four hundred pages until the bitter end. Never understood that.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“Heroes doubt themselves at first, just like you, but they go ahead anyway.”
― Jeffrey Marsh, How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life

“By 1991, for instance, epidemiologist surverys in populations had revealed that high cholesterol was NOT associated with heart disease or premature death in women. Rather, the higher the cholesterol in women, the longer they lived, a finding that was so consistent across populations and surveys that it prompted an editorial in the American Heart Associations journal, Circulation: "We are coming to realize," the three authors, led by UC San Francisco epidemiologist Stephen Hulley, wrote, "the the results of cardiovascular research in men, which represents the great majority of the effort thus far, may not apply to women.”
― Gary Taubes, Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals about Diet, Insulin and Successful Treatments

“Just because a horse can run, or train, does not mean that it can race. It might have the ability to run just as fast as everyone else - or faster - but it can't race, or won't race. There are plenty of horses working at Penn National or Finger Lakes, everyday, putting in workouts that are just as fast as the horses at Belmont. But they can't race; that's why they're at Finger Lakes.”
― Joe Layden, The Ghost Horse: A True Story of Love, Death, and Redemption