Neil

“In sickness and in sickness. That is what I wish for you. Don't seek or expect miracles. There are no miracles. Not anymore. And there are no cures for the hurt that hurts most. There is only the medicine of believing each other's pain, and being present for it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am

“The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality

“We cannot avoid this responsibility, this freedom.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy

“It’s often pretty hard to speak to others about my cancer. I have a number of pet peeves. Many folks are overly solicitous. They can’t do enough for you. There’s that Kaiser nurse who keeps asking “Isn’t there someone who can drive you here?” And some people are too prying. I think they are voyeuristic and attempt to satisfy their morbid curiosity about having cancer. I don’t like that and have sometimes wanted to say, “Go get your own damn fatal illness.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy