Gabi Hamner

“Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“I have learned that raising a child is essentially one long, slow agony of letting go.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“We love each other because we can't help it. We don't work at it and we don't sacrifice for it. It is easy and all the sweeter to me because it is so undeserved. I discover within a second context that when something just won't work, moving heaven and earth often won't make it work -- and similarly, there are some things that you just can't screw up. I know that I could live without him: I have my own work, my own mission, and my own money. But I don't want to. I really don't want to. We make plans: he will share his strength with me and I will share my imagination with him...”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl