One Word Kill (Impossible Times, #1)

by Mark Lawrence

If you ignore the words, there’s an honesty in the emotion that fleets across faces in conversation.

The thing about cancer, and I guess any disaster, is that it doesn’t just go away. You don’t wake up. And, in the end, you just have to get on with things exactly like everyone else does. Demus’s appearance was the same, a strange fact I had to bend my life around.

Truth may often be the first casualty of war, but dignity is definitely the first casualty of disease.

We might live in a multiverse of infinite wonder, but we are what we are, and can only care about what falls into our own orbit.