#dna

Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of poetry is also true of DNA: 'all meanings depend on the key of interpretation.' What makes us human, and what makes each of us his or her own human, is not simply the genes that we have buried into our base pairs, but how our cells, in dialogue with our environment, feed back to our DNA, changing the way we read ourselves. Life is a dialectic. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#genes #genome #life #literature #science

Damn it all to hell and back again, you know very well that was a setup. You bloody well know I couldn't put my hands on her." "Yeah, yeah, sure, sure." Eve shrugged off her coat, tossed it aside. "I know a setup when I see it, and I know your face, ace. I didn't see desire on it, I saw annoyance." "Is that so? Is that bloody well so? Well, if you knew it was just what it was, why did you sucker punch me?" "Mostly?" She turned, cocked a hip. "Because you're a man." Eyes narrowed on her face, he tried to stanch the blood with the back of his hand. "And do you have any sort of idea just how often I might expect your fist in my goddamn face because of my bleeding DNA? ↗

— J.D. Robb

#eve-dallas #roarke #death

Losing a child must be the second most painful thing ever. The most painful thing would be to lose the child, find him, and then watch him be murdered by his sibling, who happens to contain half of Satan’s DNA.
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— Jarod Kintz

#death #dna #loss #murder #satan

I’m tied up, gagged and about to be bludgeoned to death by a lawn ornament. Jeez, that’s depressing. - Raven Smith ↗

— Rita Stradling

#lawn-ornament #death

A good book is a good place to go..... to dream! ↗

— Donna Lee Comer

#clean-mystery #kidnapped #thriller #dreams

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero. ↗

— Sam Harris

#evolution #inheritance #natural-selection #science #faith

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart. ↗

— Fran Elizabeth Grubb

#child-abuse #family #kidnapped #self-help-books #family

Kidnap me and take me away. Throw me across the back of your bike and show me what it feels like to have the wind in your face and the sun on your skin, day in and day out. If it's anything at all like this then it must be heaven on earth.  ↗

— C.M. Stunich

#bikers #enjoy-freedom #enjoy-life #free #free-will

The best part about being kidnapped is being blindfolded and getting kicked into the trunk of a car. Boy, normally I have to beg my friends to treat me that well. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#blindfolded #car #friends #friendship #funny

A ransom note, the true test of unconditional love. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #kidnapping #love #funny