“The only answer to death is the heat and confusion of living; the only dependable warmth is the warmth of the blood.”
― The Cancer Journals
― The Cancer Journals
“Sometimes despair sweeps across my consciousness like luna winds across a barren moonscape. Ironshod horses rage back and forth over every nerve.”
― The Cancer Journals
― The Cancer Journals
“[...] it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.”
― The Cancer Journals
― The Cancer Journals
“If I can look directly at my life and my death without flinching I know there is nothing they can ever do to me again.”
― The Cancer Journals
― The Cancer Journals
“Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.”
― The Cancer Journals
― The Cancer Journals
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