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Medicine is, I have found, a strange and in many ways disturbing business. The stakes are high, the liberties taken tremendous. We drug people, put needles and tubes into them, manipulate their chemistry, biology, and physics, lay them
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“Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.”
― The Likeness
― The Likeness
“I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack ”
― The Likeness
― The Likeness
“In newness we are forced into presence and focus. Newness can even slow down our sense of time. This explains why time seemed slower when we were kids.”
― The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
― The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
Abigail Crowell’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Abigail Crowell’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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222 books
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