Frank Huyler > Quotes

“...I was tired of throwing still more experiences onto the bonfire of my own confusion. It was bright enough already, and cast its light as far as I could see.
p 284”
― Frank Huyler, Right of Thirst

“Children are not entirely human. There is a lot of the animal left in them.


about the girl who needed her foot amputated. p170”
― Frank Huyler, Right of Thirst

“...hers was the heartlessness of poverty, which, it seemed to me, is different from the heartlessness of wealth.
p 290”
― Frank Huyler, Right of Thirst

“It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.
p 284”
― Frank Huyler, Right of Thirst

“Only the effort of walking calmed me, and allowed me to think at all.


p 227”
― Frank Huyler, Right of Thirst

“I wanted to do something decent at last, and I wanted to be rewarded for my decency.
p 284”
― Frank Huyler, Right of Thirst

“you come to rely, more than anything else, on first sight. You walk into the room and you think, sick or not sick. Not sick goes home as fast as possible. Sick, you watch. You draw blood, you order X rays, you give them fluids. You are careful, because a little bell went off in your head when you walked into the room and saw them.”
― Frank Huyler, The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine

“I have no faith myself, but like so many unbelievers, I envy the faithful.”
― Frank Huyler, White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine

“Pain, the idea that something that is gone forever can nonetheless remain so cruelly alive.”
― Frank Huyler, Right of Thirst

“These people here," he said. "They have no idea. They have no idea how big the world really is. They're thinking only about themselves - their own lives and careers. Maybe they're thinking about their children's lives and careers. They're telling their kids to become lawyers and bankers and stockbrokers. They're telling them to compete and win and get rich, that's it. They're oblivious, they really are. They don't know what's important. They think you get a prize at the end, and you don't. But saving people from hunger and disease, that's important. That actually matters.”
― Frank Huyler, Right of Thirst

“It is always better to earn things than to be given them.”
― Frank Huyler, Right of Thirst