Applied Electromagnetism Quotes

“Somehow this information felt like a personal betrayal, as if bananas had been lying to her as part of some vast fruit conspiracy her whole life.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“We’re killing ourselves for an arbitrary deadline.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“Life isn’t an experiment, it’s an experience. By refusing to believe in anything that can’t be measured by empirical evidence, you’re closing yourself off to wonder and the comfort of belief.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“It wasn’t you that I disliked—it was myself.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“Apologies aren’t coins you feed into a vending machine in exchange for instant forgiveness.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“Botanically, a berry is defined as a fruit produced from the ovary of a single flower. Which includes grapes, tomatoes, and peppers, but not a lot of the fruits that we commonly consider berries.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“The halls of IT history were littered with the bodies of people who thought something would be fine when it wasn’t, and the stakes were high because it was power.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“Her preferred strategy was to prepare people for the worst, then hopefully deliver more than they were expecting.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“What the hell did people do before electricity and television and the internet?” “I think most of them worked themselves half to death just to stay alive.” “Okay, but what about rich white people with servants to do all the work for them? How the hell did they pass the time?” She thought about all the costume dramas she’d watched. “I believe their lives were so dull they considered a turn about the room entertainment.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“A storm this bad used to be an every ten to twenty years kind of event. But with climate change they’re practically an annual occurrence these days.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“It squatted in the middle of a wide valley like a fairy-tale castle in a steampunk dystopia.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“This place really was the Bates Motel. They were probably lucky to get out alive.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“I always carry emergency chocolate with me.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“It’s always either flooding or a drought.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“Why are you like this?” he asked as he chose a granola bar. “I just am. This is the personality I was born with.” He shook his head as he tore open the wrapper. “There has to be a reason you are the person you are. Something in your past that informed your hoarder tendencies.” “No there doesn’t. Some of us just came from the factory broken.” “I don’t think you’re broken.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“But what I’m saying is I feel it more than is normal. And it’s not just something I can decide to get over, because it’s neurological and genetic. The messages my brain is sending me are worse than the messages your brain sends you.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“He was like her mirror opposite in that way. She had always made a show of pretending to be sweet around the people she worked with to hide the fact she was actually sarcastic and sharp-tongued underneath. But Adam hid all his sweetness behind a prickly exterior that seemed designed to keep people at arm’s length.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“And for the record, I wasn’t blessed with a high charisma score. I actually have to work at it, which is what most people do.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“Until you’ve spent your entire life navigating misogyny, maybe don’t criticize how I choose to do it.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“You can put your faith in anything you want, so long as it gives you hope and makes the world a little more wondrous.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“People had a tendency to look right through her, or right past her, or right over the top of her five foot three inches.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism

“She was a woman in a predominantly male field, and if she didn’t put in the extra effort to suck up and make friends, it would bite her in the ass professionally.”
― Susannah Nix, Applied Electromagnetism