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Katherine is one of Gifty’s colleagues in the neuroscience program. She has taken time away from her psychiatric practice to get her Ph.D. because she is passionate about helping people for whom conventional and established therapies have failed. She is also vocal about being a woman in STEM and she openly confesses her ongoing conversation with her husband about when or whether to have a baby. Thus, unlike Gifty, Katherine can articulate the connection between her life and her current studies, is comfortable in her femininity, and doesn’t feel that an academic career path necessarily precludes familial intimacy. She takes Gifty under her wing as a friend, gently making herself available and baking Gifty a lot of tasty food once she learns about Gifty’s mother’s depression. It’s Katherine to whom Gifty finally confesses that she’s not okay when she learns to ask for help.
Katherine Quotes in Transcendent Kingdom
The Transcendent Kingdom quotes below are all either spoken by Katherine or refer to Katherine. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 50
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It took me many years to realize that it’s hard to live in this world. I don’t mean the mechanics of living, because for most of us, our hearts will beat, our lungs will take in oxygen, without us doing anything at all to tell them to. For most of us, mechanically, physically, it’s harder to die than it is to live. But still we try to die. We drive too fast down winding roads, we have sex with strangers without wearing protection, we drink, we use drugs. We try to squeeze a little more out of our lives. It’s natural to want to do that. But to be alive in the world, every day, as we are given more and more and more, as the nature of “what we can handle” changes and our methods for how we handle it change, too, that’s something of a miracle.
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Katherine Quotes in Transcendent Kingdom
The Transcendent Kingdom quotes below are all either spoken by Katherine or refer to Katherine. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 50
Quotes
It took me many years to realize that it’s hard to live in this world. I don’t mean the mechanics of living, because for most of us, our hearts will beat, our lungs will take in oxygen, without us doing anything at all to tell them to. For most of us, mechanically, physically, it’s harder to die than it is to live. But still we try to die. We drive too fast down winding roads, we have sex with strangers without wearing protection, we drink, we use drugs. We try to squeeze a little more out of our lives. It’s natural to want to do that. But to be alive in the world, every day, as we are given more and more and more, as the nature of “what we can handle” changes and our methods for how we handle it change, too, that’s something of a miracle.
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