☆ Katie ☆

“Scientists like to say— often with a lofty affectation— that to be a scientist is to accept a lifetime of learning and relearning, as new data upturns theories and redefines what was once thought to be fact. It is a lifetime of paradigm shifts. It is a lifetime of being on your toes, of asking why, rooting around for answers, sometimes finding them, and then rewiring neural connections in your brain to fit them in. Change is the lifeblood.”
― Janie Kim, We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

“How many details of a secret must be revealed before it is no longer considered a lie?”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“He would often try to think that perhaps that has to be the case: that our teenage years have to simultaneously be the brightest light and the darkest depths, because that’s how we learn to figure out our horizons.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Sometimes a marriage runs its course, and because we want to believe so desperately that love is infallible, we seek a single point of failure, as if we can create a map of all the land mines to avoid. A marriage merely survives if it steps gingerly forward and avoids explosives. It thrives when you love with abandon, understanding that the potential pain you might endure is no greater or less based on whether you shielded your heart or exposed it completely.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be