“I tell a woman in antenatal clinic that she has to give up smoking. She shoots me a look that makes me wonder if I’ve accidentally just said, ‘I want to fuck your cat,’ or ‘They’re closing Lidl’.”
― This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
― This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
“Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?”
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
“I wait for the significance of this to dawn. Moss grows around my feet. Glaciers form and melt.”
― The Chalk Man
― The Chalk Man
“Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.”
― The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
― The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
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