“Fakery is a vital currency in our social intercourse. That’s not necessarily all bad. A lot of the time we pretend as a way of fortifying or easing connections. When we feign recognition, for example, or delight in seeing someone,… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
Is there a wrong way to say "I don't know"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b) in the… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“Wally gives gifts all the time, at the drop of a hat, little, odd ones. The gift not so much in the item itself… — Leah hager Cohen Copy Share Image
Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds. — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“The words came fast and slow, because the act of writing plunged me so wantonly down slippery avenues of thought that frequently I found… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“Like storytelling, that incessant loving rush of explaining and repositioning and telling again, all for the sake of finding something shared, something mutually recognized… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“That our intuition could lead us astray is troubling in direct proportion to the degree of trust we place in it. The solution would… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the fundamental absurdity… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“Brant had said my embellishing constituted a disservice to history and its players. But I believed the opposite. Marooning them on the forlorn island… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
