About a Girl: A Novel (The Metamorphoses Trilogy)

‘There were two ways of arriving at the truth. I decided to follow them both.

understood the thing I’d never been able to see before: that our stories are our own, even when they overlap with other people’s, and that sometimes keeping them safe is a part of keeping ourselves whole.

The history of science is a history of those moments in which a single piece of information has torn asunder everything that came before.

“I think there are different kinds of stories, and different kinds of knowing.