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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Apr 14, 2013 01:40PM

“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

tags: conflict, story, unhappiness

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“I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

tags: zombies

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“My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

tags: funny, zombies

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