“When everything goes wrong in our lives, it's natural to look around for someone -or something- to blame.”
“Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.”
“He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.”
“Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him.”
“It's just something I'll have to live with... The possibility of getting sick. Not knowing if I'll live another two years or forty years. I keep telling myself, I could walk outside and get hit by a bus. That's the way life is. Just surviving another day comes with its own risk.”
“Only by the shuddering of the bed did Toby realize the girl was sobbing. Molly herself made no sound; it was as though her grief was trapped in a jar, her cries inaudible to anyone but her.”
“And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say:
You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.”
“Yeah, I do. Sometimes I worry my memories will fade without them.”
“What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter.”
“Death had no lips, but it was smiling”
“What in the name of Hitler's panties and matching bra set was she talking about?”
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