“With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but ’tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.”
― Circus of the Damned
― Circus of the Damned
“I will share your joy and sorrow / Till we’ve seen this journey through.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both nothing and everything. Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn’t really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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