Joe

“He has a fit, he is dying, and you come and bleed him and patch him up. He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to everybody, for another ten years. It would be far easier and simpler for him to die.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“And besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! Killed them, yes!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.'
What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant