Maria Healey

“After I was caught returning at dawn from one such late-night escapade, my worried mother thoroughly interrogated me regarding every drug teenagers take, never suspecting that the most intoxicating thing I’d experienced, by far, was the volume of romantic poetry she’d handed me the previous week.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.”
― Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

“He had reached some compromise in his mind that fatherhood could be distilled; short, concentrated (but sincere) bursts of high intensity could equal…whatever it was that other fathers did. All I knew was, if that was the price of medicine, it was simply too high.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Letting someone you don’t really like surprise you is evolved,”
― Mary-Louise Parker, Dear Mr. You