Christopher Lindsay

“Once you have a diagnosis, you must make several important decisions—not just regarding your treatment, although those choices are most important, but about your work, your finances, your family responsibilities, and the way in which a brain tumor will affect your perception of yourself and your relationships.”
― Peter Black, Living with Brain Tumors: A Guide to Taking Control of Your Treatment

“A brain tumor can radically change your self-identity. Even if your tumor is removed and you are doing well, you may continue to see yourself as someone who is very different from other people.”
― Peter Black, Living with Brain Tumors: A Guide to Taking Control of Your Treatment

“I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
― Christopher Markus