Anna

“I know you don't believe in ghosts,' Sorasa murmured, holding her ground. 'But I do,' she said.
His chest filled with an unfamiliar feeling, an ache he could not name.
'Sorasa,' he began, but the crowd surged around them.
'Haunt me, Domacridhan.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Fate Breaker

“There is a razor-thin line between trying to find something usefully redemptive in illness and lying to ourselves about the nature of suffering. Until we mourn what is lost in illness—and until we have a medical community that takes seriously the suffering of patients—we should not celebrate what is gained in it.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

“I realize this isn’t much to go on, Agent Lee.’
He thought for a moment. ‘True, but the last time you happened across a murder, the president lost his job. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.”
― Stacey Abrams, Rogue Justice

“And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness