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I’ve read endless cancer memoirs in the years following my diagnosis; some written from the warm shore of survival, others cut short by an end note from a bereaved relative. Some talk of healing and growth, others of grief and suffering,
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“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ”
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“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
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“Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.”
― Strong Poison
― Strong Poison
“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”
― Gather Together in My Name
― Gather Together in My Name
“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
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