We Carry the Sea in Our Hands Quotes

“Living organisms have adapted to life in a turbulent world. Wings, fins, skin, scales, the shapes of bodies and cells, these are all giveaway signs of adaptation to turbulence. Amid chaos, life finds a way.”
― Janie Kim, We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

“Scientists like to say— often with a lofty affectation— that to be a scientist is to accept a lifetime of learning and relearning, as new data upturns theories and redefines what was once thought to be fact. It is a lifetime of paradigm shifts. It is a lifetime of being on your toes, of asking why, rooting around for answers, sometimes finding them, and then rewiring neural connections in your brain to fit them in. Change is the lifeblood.”
― Janie Kim, We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

“Biology is the original Danse Macabre”
― Janie Kim, We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

“Identity in Biology is a matter of nesting dolls”
― Janie Kim, We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

“She carries an immigrant's stoic melancholy”
― Janie Kim, We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

“The episode is illustrative of Petra. You try to disagree with her, you get a slap. Usually verbal, but no one doubts her ability to make it physical if pressed. This is especially true if you have disagreed with her science. She is one of those people who have so interwoven their research and their sense of identity into one that it's all become a fine, inextricable meshwork. Try to peel one from the other, and it gets bloody”
― Janie Kim, We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

“But then again, I am no expert on motherhood— on either the receiving or the giving end”
― Janie Kim, We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

“The molecules are a reflection of a possible past.
The molecules are from a place where poison begets life”
― Janie Kim, We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

“I figured as much, but even so, I'm embarrassed to feel the cinching of bitterness. Ersatz emotion, I quickly label it, discard it, what a waste of heart's precious finite space. I have no concern for this person who discarded me —me that sloughed off her hands into a youth shelter. In my mind's eye, she was tearless.”
― Janie Kim, We Carry the Sea in Our Hands