“It was kind of tragic, I reflected, that we all spent our lives working but never really got good at our work, or even finished it. The purpose instead was for me to stand on the rock that he had thrown into the rushing river, bend and claw another rock from the bottom, and then cast it down a bit further and hope it would be a useful next step for some person with whom Providence might allow me to cross paths.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.”
― The Princess Diarist
― The Princess Diarist
“Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable. Every replete tree was first a seed that waited.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“Humans are actively creating a world where only weeds can live and then feigning shock and outrage upon finding so many.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
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