Jessica Cross

“No job in the world is worth destroying yourself over, even if you work in a brilliant, beautiful place like the NHS. It’s OK to take a break or a breather. It’s also OK to step away altogether, if that’s the right thing to do. In a world of people telling you not to rock the boat, sometimes you have to fuck the boat. Do it with as much love and tenderness as you can manage, but grab your trunks and start swimming. Only you know what’s in your heart – whether it’s becoming a caricaturist in Leicester Square, moving to Chad or moving in with Chad. I promise you’ll sleep a lot better.”
― Adam Kay, Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

“But the best revenge is to thrive.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“There is power in a name. It is through names that we bring all things into this world, and when they leave, it is names we carry with us, so they are never truly gone.”
― Justin Cronin, The Ferryman

“Yet something nagged at me. It is impossible, of course, to completely know another person; we are, in the end, prisoners of our own minds.”
― Justin Cronin, The Ferryman