“He taught me love is stronger than death”
― Men We Reaped: A Memoir
― Men We Reaped: A Memoir
“A good joke cleans your insides out. If I don't laugh for a week, I feel dirty. I feel dirty now, like my insides are rotting.”
― The Clean House
― The Clean House
“Far do your enemies flee.”
― Jade Legacy
― Jade Legacy
“There once was a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was married to a nurse. He loved her—immeasurably. One day Halsted noticed that his wife’s hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love.
When I met Ana, I knew:
I loved her to the point of invention.”
― The Clean House
When I met Ana, I knew:
I loved her to the point of invention.”
― The Clean House
“I guess what I mean is that sometimes I don't know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was. Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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