24 Quotes by Emily Martin

This conference race is going to go down to the final game. In my years here, the league has never had this much balance. A lot of teams are capable of winning on any day. We're in a good position but we're going to have to keep playing like this to stay in the lead.

It's always a little more special to win a close game like this with a run in the bottom of the seventh. I had a lot of confidence in the kids we had coming to the plate. Courtney Smith is only a sophomore, but she can hit. I had a good idea she'd come through for us.

I don't know if the school has ever had a girl hit the ball like Jamie is hitting it this season. We've had some good hitters. But right now, I'd have to put Jamie at the top of the list.

The persistence of this imagery calls to mind what Ludwik Fleck termed ‘the self-contained’ nature of scientific thought. As he described it, ’the interaction between what is already known, what remains to be learned, and those who are to apprehend it, go to ensure harmony within the system. But at the same time they also preserve the harmony of illusions, which is quite secure within the confines of a given thought style.

We carry our past with us everywhere we go.

Distance between us. That’s what I need. Otherwise, the whole last year of avoiding Declan – of forcing myself to let him go – was pointless.