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“The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep, quite simply, makes this planet habitable.”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“A long, ridged plastic tube, like a vacuum cleaner pipe, known as the slurp gun...”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“Molluscs aren’t mathematicians.”
― Helen Scales, Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells