Maddie Day

When something started buzzing, Buck retrieved a big old cell phone out of a case clipped onto his wide belt and flipped it open with all the flair of the pre-smartphone days.

A kindly female professor had told me once, when I was worried about presenting a paper, it was always better to be overdressed when you were nervous.

(...) for me, using my hands with something more tactile than a keyboard engaged my brain in a different way than using my eyes on a screen.

The room had darkened as we ate, and we sat in a circle of candlelight, the rest of the world lost to the night.

"That one donated his brain to science before he was done with it. He'd lose a debate with a doorknob."