Genna

“Prioritizing hurt, a reminder that the clock was ticking, that some things would be left undone.”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice

“Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“Because ‘boys will be boys’ is a self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Lundy. “They’re too loud, on the whole, to be easily misplaced or overlooked; when they disappear from the home, parents send search parties to dredge them out of swamps and drag them away from frog ponds. It’s not innate. It’s learned. But it protects them from the doors, keeps them safe at home. Call it irony, if you like, but we spend so much time waiting for our boys to stray that they never have the opportunity. We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice