Below Zero Quotes
"After all, blue was always my favorite color."
"I never really believed in an afterlife, but who knows? Better hedge my bets."
"I had this feeling, my entire life, that I was never going to be enough."
"I guess my crossed knees kind of pressed against his leg earlier, but that's it. No big deal."
"I'm not sure why everyone else did. I assume because it's challenging. Lots of high-risk, high-reward projects."
"It’s not a good position, and I hate this stupid chair, and this is driving me insane."
"This pleasure is sudden and violent. It splinters into me like a wonderful, terrible explosion, new and frightening and fantastic."
"Well, if you change your mind about fucking . . ."
"He’ll make for a great boyfriend. For someone who deserves to have one."
"I must admit, Dr. Harding, that I initially thought this assignment would be a total waste of time."
"Just relax and think of Mars, okay? I’ll be there soon."
"I know quite a bit about Ian Floyd’s career accomplishments, and I am well aware that he’s still at NASA."
"I hate him, I hate him, I hate him, and I don’t hesitate to let him know."
"It’s just a sprain, I’m pretty sure. But as far as sprains go, this is a bad one."
"Dogs. Three a.m. in the summer. Sadie and Mara being absolute idiots, and me laughing at them."
"I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I— I have no clue what’s wrong with me, I—"
"We need to be on our way before the storm gets worse."
"Do try to contain your love for crevasses, please."
"I hadn’t known. Down in the crevasse, I was able to pretend it wasn’t happening."
"Why are you here? On this boat? You’re not part of this year’s AMASE."
"You can’t believe that they ever really was an ocean. On Mars."
"The messages were pretty appalling, but what sent me sobbing in a bathroom stall was the reactions of the other students in my cohort—Tim included. They laughed the comments off as harmless pranks and dissuaded me from reporting them to the department chair, telling me that I’d be making a stink about nothing."
"That night I fell asleep crying. The following day, I got up, wondered how many other women in STEM felt as alone as I did."
"I just wanted to scream into the void. I honestly didn’t think that anyone would even see my first Tweet. But I was wrong."
"The account has evolved into a therapeutic community of sorts, used by women in STEM to tell their stories, exchange advice, and . . . bitch."
"Oh, we bitch. We bitch a lot, and it’s glorious."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a community of women trying to mind their own business must be in want of a random man’s opinion."
"I’ve long learned that engaging with basement-dwelling STEMlords who come online looking for a fight is never a good idea."
"The internet is a sea full of creepy, cybercriminal fish, and if Mark Zuckerberg can cover his laptop webcam with a piece of tape, I reserve the right to keep things painfully anonymous."
"It’s not my fault if I’ve spent a sizable chunk of my formative years in Italy, where time is but a polite suggestion."
"I stopped having meat at seven, when I realized that the delicious pollo nuggets my Sicilian grandmother served nearly every day and the cute galline grazing about the farm were more . . . connected than I originally suspected."
"My sister has made it her life’s goal to eat enough animal products for two. Together we emit one normal person’s carbon footprint."
"I haven’t seen Levi Ward in six years. Six blessed, blissful years."