Shawn

“ ‘Zweisamkeit’ is the feeling of being alone even when you’re with other people.” Simon turned to look in his husband’s eyes. “Before I met you, I felt this constantly. I felt it with my family, my friends, and every boyfriend I ever had. I felt it so often that I thought this was the nature of living. To be alive was to accept that you were fundamentally alone.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“However, as the attentive reader will have guessed, I survived.”
― Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

“The rise of independently practicing non-physician practitioners has everything to do with money, politics, and control—and nothing to do with better patient care.”
― Niran Al-Agba, Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare

“Once everyone who felt the need to run had fled, the Albany resort reminded me of New Orleans a week after Hurricane Katrina.”
― Michael Lewis, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon