Injection Quotes

“You don’t say, “I’m sorry,”’ he says. ‘Getting injections, and experiencing pain, is part of life. There’s no reason to apologize for that.’ He seems to be channelling Rousseau, who said, ‘If by too much care you spare them every kind of discomfort, you are preparing great miseries for them.’ (I’m not sure what Rousseau thought about suppositories.)”
― Pamela Druckerman, French Children Don't Throw Food

“The serum has to enter your bloodstream for it to be properly effective. I assure you, it will not hurt. It will only be a little prick. You will barely even notice it.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Mother nature is in the process of receiving a lethal injection of man-made toxins.”
― Steven Magee

“Envy is an endless injection.”
― Alan Maiccon

“He closed his eyes and fought the pain he felt. He knew, right away, the pain was not from the cancer because it was happening to the other guys, as well. They had all been injected with an experimental serum minutes earlier, which was intended to kill their cancer cells. However, the intense pain made it feel more like it was going to kill them, instead.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“There was no surprise they would feel leery about being injected by anything else he had to offer, considering what they were currently experiencing.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Tolstoy’s accounts of Borodino and Austerlitz show us what real war is like: no one knows what the orders are or who is winning. No one has any idea what to do. Soldiers are permitted to kill each other and are maddened, sooner or later, by the realization that someone else, somewhere relatively comfortable, thinks this is the right thing for them to do. And we are not so far from that kind of chaos in everyday life, really. I walk down the street towards the Infirmary, every Wednesday, and I go in and wait and sit down and everyone is quite polite, and I am played with by the law and turned into a sexless person. The most extraordinary thing is done behind a nice white screen. And the nurse who injects me does it with a good will, because she has been told that it is her job. She doubtless thinks of herself as a freely choosing agent. She likes to think she does her job well, but at the same time she is just doing her job. (One hears this a lot.) That means she does not take ultimate responsibility for her actions, because those kinds of decisions are taken, or absorbed, by more powerful persons, like Tolstoy’s generals, who know what they are doing. She sees no contradiction between this and her own intuitive sense of agency.”
― Will Eaves, Murmur