Anna’s conclusions were these: That fire is beautifully cruel. That fusion occurs only at a specific heat. That blood, in fact, can boil. That the dissolution of an affair is an entropic reaction, and the disorder it tends toward is flammable. That a heart will burn. And burn and burn and burn. Jill Alexander Essbaum
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Anna's conclusion were these: That fire is beautifully cruel. That fusion occurs only at a specific heat. That blood, in fact, can boil. That the dissolution of an affair is an entropic reaction, and the disorder it tends toward is flammable.

That a heart will burn. And burn and burn and burn. Anna was an analytical chemist who worked for NASA.

She had just received her Ph.D., but she was bored by her work, so she decided to quit her job, move to Seattle, and become a writer. She chose to do this because she had read that Tacoma was a town where writers congregate and where they made a lot of money as well as the freedom to do what they wanted with their time and creativity. Her first novel is entitled “The Flame Alphabet: A Novel of Chemical Romance,� and it's about Anna's adventures as she tries to make sense of love, chemistry, and physics.

Source: Hausfrau

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