Alex

“Imagine having the power to become resilient to all that is hostile to us.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

“But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. I see a creature whose present existence must have come as a surprise even to itself.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

“We both had been expected to be daughters but turned out to be something else. We had shed our skins, not like snakes but insects—each of us a nymph outgrowing exoskeleton after exoskeleton, and morphing as we did. We didn’t know which molt would be our last, only that we might not be there yet, both of us rivers moving toward the sea.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

“I predict I will always be in negotiation with my body, what it wants, and what I want of it.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures