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“Watch it again in a few years and I guarantee your perspective will change.’ ‘But the story won’t change.’ ‘It doesn’t have to,’ I say, ‘because you will.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

“dealing with the links between poverty and ill health by trying to provide more money is no different, to me, from seeing a patient with pneumonia and prescribing antibiotics: in each station, i'm simply giving appropriate treatment. just as certain medicines are appropriate treatments for particular diseases, so more money, or holidays, or a better house, may also improve my patients health.”
― Gavin Francis, Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence

“My father's brand of loud, violent chaos was replaced by something quiter and more insidious; a mother who meant well, who tried to give me everything, but failed to see that everything was too much. Boundaries fell away, the lines between parent and child blurred, and along with all her love and care and sacrifice I also got her fear and dread and a false belief that I was somehow responsible for fixing it all. And so what should have been a temporary measure to cope in a crisis became my way of dealing with everyday life - stay on high alert, push your feelings down and always have a plan. To this day, I have a faulty security system running constantly in the background, sounding the alarm and sending me into fight or flight over every perceived threat. I live life with a proverbial tiger in the room, but I can somehow withstands its presence as long as everything else is in order.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

“That’s the problem with breakups, though. It’s not just two people saying good-bye and going their separate ways; it’s the excruciating process of untangling two lives, picking them apart like some sad surgical procedure, trying to detach this thing from that while causing as little lasting damage as possible.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love