“The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.”
― Catching Fire
― Catching Fire
“Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only two kinds of people in the world: the sick and the not sick. If you are not sick, shut up and help. Twenty-five years later, I still cannot reject this as an inaccurate worldview.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“I have learned that raising a child is essentially one long, slow agony of letting go.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
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