“The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.” — Leah Hager Cohen Language 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 Beauty 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… — Leah Hager Cohen Being wrong Copy Share Image
“I have an inability to consider a thing without imagining the story behind it as a needful force, a great petitioning weight.” — Leah Hager Cohen Inability Copy Share Image
The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom. — Leah Hager Cohen Ability Copy Share Image
“If her mind has a glittery radiance, mine is dark and loamy, preternaturally attuned to sorrow.” — Leah Hager Cohen Psychology Copy Share Image
“She glanced over abstractedly, still keeping company with her most recent thought.” — Leah Hager Cohen Business Copy Share Image
“Food and shelter are very nice, but without stories to hear and tell, we might as well be the walking dead.” — Leah Hager Cohen Shelter Copy Share Image
The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity. — Leah Hager Cohen Born 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… — Leah hager Cohen Gift 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… — Leah Hager Cohen Black 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… — Leah Hager Cohen Facts 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… — Leah Hager Cohen Storytelling 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… — Leah Hager Cohen Absurdity 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… — Leah Hager Cohen Language 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… — Leah Hager Cohen Able 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… — Leah Hager Cohen Disservice 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)… — Leah Hager Cohen Accountability 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… — Leah Hager Cohen Decisions Copy Share Image
“The one thing that is truly monstrous is the idea of another person being unreachable. I think this is what lies behind… — Leah Hager Cohen Fear Copy Share Image
“The occasion's enormity: The birth of a friendship being no less momentous than the instant of falling in love.” — Leah Hager Cohen Falling in love Copy Share Image
“The ignorance we’re ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.” — Leah Hager Cohen Ignorance Copy Share Image
“He spoke slowly; I had a sense he was groping between words for the thread of his own thoughts.” — Leah Hager Cohen Slowly Copy Share Image
“A dry little laugh at the grotesquerie of using this stock phrase. At having occasion to use it.” — Leah Hager Cohen Comedy Copy Share Image
“Sifting through the sieve of branches, a dusting of sugar over the cereal of dead leaves. An inch of snow accumulated through… — Leah Hager Cohen Flower Copy Share Image
“In this day . . . community has come to mean less a geographic neighborhood than a broader, sketchier network of colleagues and kindred spirits.” — Leah Hager Cohen Community Copy Share Image
“In some ways I think every wrong turn I was to make . . . could be traced to moments of inaction,… — Leah Hager Cohen Wrong turn Copy Share Image
In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all… — Leah Hager Cohen Admission Copy Share Image
“Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is… — Leah Hager Cohen Debating Copy Share Image
“Fakery is a vital currency in our social intercourse. That’s not necessarily all bad. A lot of the time we pretend as… — Leah Hager Cohen Fakery Copy Share Image
“How eagerly the words spring into shape, winding themselves around a rigid latticework of meaning like the curling tendrils of ivy that… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that… — Leah Hager Cohen Accounts Copy Share Image
The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine.… — Leah Hager Cohen Books Copy Share Image
