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“People are like plants: they grow toward the light.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only two kinds of people in the world: the sick and the not sick. If you are not sick, shut up and help. Twenty-five years later, I still cannot reject this as an inaccurate worldview.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“I have learned that raising a child is essentially one long, slow agony of letting go.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we first assume, and that being able to derive happiness from discovery is a recipe for a beautiful life. It has also convinced me that carefully writing everything down is the only real defense we have against forgetting something important that once was and is no more, including the spruce tree that should have outlived me but did not.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
Shannon’s 2025 Year in Books
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