Lamya Kamal

“You love too hard,"
he said.
"It's the only way to love,"
I replied.

I am tired of
every person coming my way
telling me that I am too
needy for love.
I am not needy
for love.
I just love.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“Tuesday, 9th Novermber 2004
Bleeped awake at 3AM from my first half hour shut-eye in three shifts to prescribe a sleeping pill to a patient whose sleep is evidently much more important than mine. My powers are greater than I realised; I arrive on the ward to find the patient is asleep.”
― Adam Kay, This Is Going To Hurt

“When you sneak food, you perpetuate the belief that you are too ugly, too needy, too intense to be seen and loved for who you are...
You give yourself the message that who you are is not acceptable, and that you must pretend to be someone else to be loved.”
― Geneen Roth, Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment

“So I told them the truth: the hours are terrible, the pay is terrible, the conditions are terrible; you’re underappreciated, unsupported, disrespected and frequently physically endangered. But there’s no better job in the world.”
― Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor