Student

Henry Long '25 - Crime and Punishment

[Raskolnikov] could not have analysed anything consciously; he was simply feeling. Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Andrea Posada '25 - Out of My Mind

I look at the ugly little statue, and I start to giggle. Then I crack up. Finally, I roll with laughter. My hand jerks out and hits the trophy—I’m not sure if it was an accident or not— and it falls to the floor, breaking into several pieces.
— Sharon M. Draper

Caelan Reeves ‘24 - The Sirens of Titan

Luck, good or bad, is not the hand of God. Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.
— Kurt Vonnegut

Leila El Masri '22 - Purple Hibiscus

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Katherine Almendarez '22 - The Body Keeps the Score

Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.
— Bessel van der Kolk

Jon Joey Telebrico '23 - Algorithms of Oppression

Search results are records, and the records of human activity are a matter of tremendous contestation; they are a battleground over the identity, control, and boundaries of legitimate knowledge.
— Safiya Noble

Axel Ahdritz ‘22 - The origin of consciousness

O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind!
— Julian Jaynes

Camille Forte '23 - The Song of Achilles

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles