A widely held belief among nondoctors is that there’s some degree of choice involved in coming home at ten p.m. rather than eight. But really, the only choice is whether you fuck over yourself or your patients.
“Our patients’ lives and identities may be in our hands, yet death always wins. Even if you are perfect, the world isn’t. The secret is to know that the deck is stacked, that you will lose, that your hands or judgment will slip, and yet still struggle to win for your patients. You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“You have to fool yourself into thinking you already are the thing you want to become. That’s what my father says. You write, therefore you’re a writer.”
― Broken Country
― Broken Country
“Doctors, it turns out, need hope, too.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Your magic knew exactly who you were. That’s why your spell was a shield, not a sword.”
― A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
― A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
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