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“This was the tenth month of my "fellowship" in oncology - a two-year immersive medical program to train cancer specialists - and I felt as if I had gravitated to my lowest point. In those ten indescribably poignant and difficult months, dozens of patients in my care had died. I felt as if I was slowly becoming inured to the deaths and the desolation - vaccinated against the constant emotional brunt.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies

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“Oggie sat facing us in a threadbare blazer and pajama bottoms, as if he'd been expecting company - just not pants-worthy company - and rocked endlessly in a plastic-covered easy chair as he talked.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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“The dissection started out smoothly enough. Several boys lifted the thawed carcass out of its container and put it on the lab table. Then a line of girls elbowed their way in to form a phalanx at the dissecting table. They looked like groupies in a mosh pit. There was no room in the front line for the boys, who stood behind and watched, arms folded across their chests....One girl spent most of her time in a trancelike state picking the sharp little rings out of the squid's suckers. She was deeply intent on trying to harvest as many of the toothed rings as possible. Later that day she went home and shocked her mother by saying she wanted to switch her career goal from baking to marine science.”
― Wendy Williams, Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

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“Without an engine, Beebe's bathysphere dangled helplessly from the topside support ship like a ball of yarn suspended from knitting needles.”
― Wendy Williams, Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

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“Sometimes the dendrites leading into the nonsensory neuron are so plentiful that, under a microscope, they look very much like a richly branched coral, or perhaps like a piece of finely tatted lace”
― Wendy Williams, Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

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