Beth > Beth's Quotes

“Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but ’tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“For us, stars aligned, the gods smiled—prob’ly there was a tidal wave someplace, too, and we just haven’t heard about it yet.”
― Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald