Alex

“Sometimes you don’t need to pull yourself apart to start over. Metamorphosis isn’t always a full-body thing.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

“Perhaps if I was not an individual organism but a species, able to prototype myself over millions of years, I might have faith that my body would one day become what it’s meant to be. Maybe I would have elongated limbs to skitter atop water or bony flippers to wedge into sand. I might have a layer of gelatin or retractable spines. Maybe the way I understand myself can accommodate the physical changes that only happen on an evolutionary timescale.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

“Trauma is not just a catalyst to regeneration; it is the only catalyst.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

“Almost every system we exist in is cruel, and it is our job to hold ourselves accountable to a moral center separate from the arbitrary ganglion of laws that, so often, get things wrong.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures