Ayat

“as a doctor, you have a sense of what its like to be sick, but until you've gone through it yourself, you don't really know. it's like falling in love or having a kid. you don't appreciate the mounds of paperwork that come along with it, or the little things. when you get an IV placed, for example, you can actually taste the salt when they start infusing it. they tell me that this happens to everybody, but even after eleven years in medicine, i had never known”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“like a premature lung, i felt the unsteady for the responsibility of sustaining life”
― Paul Kalanithi

“The sky grows dark
The black over blue
Yet the stars still dare
To shine for you”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“forfeiting solitude, independence, is a much greater sacrifice than most of us realize”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things