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“I found myself thinking of Potts as a tragic figure, a guy who'd been a happy towheaded kid you'd love to take fishing with you, who'd mistakenly invested in academic medicine when he'd have been happy in his family business, and who'd become a splattered mess on the parking lot of a hospital in a city he'd despised. What had been the seductiveness of medicine? Why?”
― Samuel Shem, The House of God

“I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

“Memory, like love, is an act of imagination, an abandonment and a possession.”
― Susan Dodd, Mamaw: A Novel of an Outlaw Mother

“Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?”
― Chopin, Kate, The Awakening and Selected Short Stories