Michelle Kubilis

“There are some things you just do because it’s the right thing to do. And the outcome is out of my hands or in somebody else’s hands. I want to believe there’s value in that. You’re doing everything you can for the patient, but you’re not deluding yourself into thinking that what you do isn’t worth doing because the person is going to die anyway.”
― Tracy Kidder, Rough Sleepers

“The way forward would seem obvious”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Because of the fifty-one previous years of his life, he had a number of complexes. He had a Napoleon complex, a southern complex, a baby-of-the-family complex. He had both a superiority complex and an inferiority complex, and, because he was born on Christmas Day, a Christmas baby complex.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring