"My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches."

"The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale."

"Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack."

"The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4."

"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science."

"It is a quiet truth that do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks."

"It is a radiant truth that every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice."