Maggie

“the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it
- there is nothing purer than that”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“But that act reversed our hierarchies, and with it our identities, which, in this country, were already tenuous and tethered.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Every illness is not a set of pathologies but a personal story”
― Anne fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

“I've always treasured empathy as the particular privilege of the invisible, the observers who are shy precisely because they sense so much--because it is overwhelming to say even a single word when you're sensitive to every last flicker of nuance in the room.”
― Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams