Reassurances Quotes

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Laura Kasischke
“And I still walk the sidewalk mumbling

something about how it will all be fine

Fine is its own crazy village on the Rhine
Fine is the name of the cuckoo-clock maker
Fine is the word the cuckoo cries

every hour after hour on the hour—
scrambling out of its dark little hole

like something being chased with a knife by Time”
Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains

Suzanne Collins
“I started out as a medical doctor, you know," she said. "Obstetrics."

How awful, Coriolanus thought. To have you be the first person in the world a baby sees.

"Wasn't really for me," said Dr. Gaul. "Parents always want reassurances you can't give. About the futures their children face. How could I possibly know what they'd encounter?”
Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes