Bree

“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.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I wonder, not for the first time, if shame and pride are merely two sides of the same coin.”
― Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World