“In accordance with ancient tradition,” the cleric proclaimed, “if any here object to this union, speak now and be immediately executed for treason.”
“But I did know that sometimes a bad seed was just a bad seed. No matter what field it was planted in, no matter how it was tended, some just came up rotten.”
― Things We Never Got Over
― Things We Never Got Over
“I take a drink of my coffee and close my eyes and cry because life can be so fucking cruel and hard, and I’ve wanted to quit living it so many times, but then moments like these remind me that happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.”
― Reminders of Him
― Reminders of Him
“So, you decide right now, right here. Are you gonna live in your sadness or are you gonna die in it?”
― Reminders of Him
― Reminders of Him
“Wednesday, 2 May 2007 I finish consenting a couple for caesarean section. ‘Any questions at all?’ I ask the room. ‘Yes,’ chips in their six-year-old. ‘Do you think Jesus was black?”
― This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
― This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
“It proves that time, distance, and devastation allow people enough
opportunity to craft villains out of people they don’t even know.”
― Reminders of Him
opportunity to craft villains out of people they don’t even know.”
― Reminders of Him
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