She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.