“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
“you tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful but i was not made with a fire in my belly so i could be put out”
― Milk and Honey
― Milk and Honey
“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
“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
“it taught me the most important thing I know about science: that experiments are not about getting the world to do what you want it to do.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
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