All the Answers

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. —Einstein

[I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.

Maybe Sophie was upset but not mad. Sometimes, Ava couldn't tell the difference. She just assumed that whenever anybody wasn't happy, it was her fault.

You have to let go before you can reach.

Smothered in numbers?” Sophie raised her eyebrows. “I didn’t know that could be fatal.” “It totally can,” Ava said. “Death by linear equations.

What is the formula to find the circumference of a circle? She listened. Nothing.

life isn’t about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is to make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we’ve been given while we’re here.

She would tell you that you need to let go..." "Before you can reach," Ava whispered. "She would tell you to treasure the people you love right now," Grandma Marion went on, "instead of worrying about when they'll be gone. She would tell you that in spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is to make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.

Gram prayed for almost everybody while she watched CNN, but she always said there was a special hot place in the afterlife for certain kinds of criminals. Ava decided that adventure course designers should be added to that list and have a special place there, too. Preferably one where they had to climb through flaming Hula-Hoops on a tightrope. Blindfolded.