“Doctors never believe how simple it is to give patients dignity. It takes a sentence. It takes a short walk around a table.”
― In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
― In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
“The question is not: Will you die? The question is which you needs to die off, so that the new self can live and thrive in a new, loving world.”
― In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
― In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
“Wouldn’t it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged?”
― In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
― In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
“Wouldn’t it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.” SCAN”
― In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
― In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
“So much of life, it seems to me, is the framing and naming of things.”
― In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
― In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
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