Mary-Rose MacColl > Quotes

“Confidence is like anything else. The more you do it, the more you believe it.”
― Mary-Rose MacColl, In Falling Snow

“In the end, you have to do what's right. There's a higher good, always, to be found. You have to find it, that's all. And as doctors we have an even greater responsibility because we take part in important moments of so many lives. You can believe in a vengeful God. You can believe in medicine. It will all fall away. Truth runs under the world, a deep black seam of truth, and that's in the end what we seek, as doctors and as human beings.”
― Mary-Rose MacColl, In Falling Snow

“Snow makes the world quieter and louder at the same time.”
― Mary-Rose MacColl, In Falling Snow

“Life reaches a point where you no longer wish to dig about in the earth of the past to find what might have made you grow the way you have. Or how you might have been different.”
― Mary-Rose MacColl, In Falling Snow

“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed like ancient history.”
― Mary-Rose MacColl, In Falling Snow

“It was the first time I saw the skill Miss Ivens had for ignoring a person’s faults. Initially, I thought she was lacking perception, but it wasn’t that. It was that she always dug deeper to find the better feelings inside people and encourage those. Their petty feelings she simply ignored. I later saw that even the worst of them often rose to her expectations.”
― Mary-Rose MacColl, In Falling Snow