Linda

“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“This world is full of winners and losers, Ben. Do you know the difference?
...
Winners know who they need to fuck to get ahead, losers stand by and watch all the fucking.”
― T.D. Severin, Deadly Vision

“I had to stop taking my
rheumatism medication when I first started taking the pills for my heart.

‘When it really comes down to it, it’s not a hard choice between your
heart and your joints, is it?’ the locum doctor had asked with a smile.

Dying of a heart attack probably wouldn’t be a bad way to go, I had time
to think, before he interrupted my thoughts.”
― Lisa Ridzén, When the Cranes Fly South

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See