Mechelle Ross

“This is calculated, cold message. Only Silvers can fight in the arenas because only a Silver can survive the arena. They fight to show us their strength and power. You are no match for us. We are your betters. We are gods.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I was not yet with patients in their pivotal moments, I was merely at those pivotal moments. I observed a lot of suffering; worse, I became inured to it.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Neurosurgery attracted me as much as for its intertwining of brain and consciousness as for its intertwining of life and death.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“I realized that the questions intersecting life, death, and meaning, questions that all people face at some point, usually arise in a medical context. In the actual situations where one encounters these questions, it becomes a necessarily philosophical and biological exercise. Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including the one that says entropy always increases.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air