Sandra Miltich

“Throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to “fight,” as if sickness were a character failing. Illness could not be defeated, no matter how hard you fought, and pain, once it had you in its grasp, was transformational.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“boyhoods spent outdoors, roaming the suburbs, the beach, the bush, from morning until their mothers called them in for tea. It was a way of life lost now—Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had seen to that. The butt end of the information revolution: fatbergs larded with Zucker-tucker.”
― Matthew Spencer, Black River