“Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning they all offer more or less the same and no one know how it will go after that. I guess it is often not so much your prospects at a particular firm, because these are essentially unknowable, but whether people will think you have done well to get the job there, that determines you choice. That was largely it in my case. It was really the prestige. They gave good letterhead.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWellsDoneJobsChoicesCompanyCasesKnow HowParticularOffersDetermineFirmEmployersPrestigeProspects Book:The Reasons I Won't be Coming: Stories Source: The Reasons I Won't be Coming: Stories
“You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.” KnowsNextWaterSleepWeekComfortableWake UpBreathsBottomExcitedDespiteVases Author:Elliot Perlman
“I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.” KnowsShouldReasonGood ThingsChests Author:Elliot Perlman
“The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.” ThinkingKnowsPersonsMatterCharacterPersonalityCircumstancesPeculiarObserversStrands Author:Elliot Perlman
“Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words that are somehow made imperfect when used to describe her and all that should remain unsaid about her- it is all unsupported by reason. I know that. But that enigmatic calm that attaches itself to people in the presence of reason- it's something from which I haven't been able to take comfort, not reliably, not since her.” PeopleKnowsShouldMadeReasonAbleRememberUsedPerfectHavensComfortCalmImperfectGesturesUnsaidEnigmatic Author:Elliot Perlman
