Shannon

“People are like plants: they grow toward the light.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

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