Our house is filled with nurses and carers and they are hurting me. It’s not their fault.
“Everyone tells me not to shout when I get to shouting stage, but I beg to differ, because asking politely has got me nowhere and so now I have to resort to shouting to get things done. You think I like shouting? Because I don’t, I don’t like shouting!’ she shouted.”
― Very Very Lucky
― Very Very Lucky
“normalcy.”
― The Patient's Secret
― The Patient's Secret
“the moral is that you shouldn’t let your vanity make you so competitive that you’re driven to self-destruction.”
― Butter
― Butter
“Thinking of such things like they’d happened years ago already and not just a few weeks back. For once life begins to accelerate it goes faster and faster.”
― We Were the Mulvaneys
― We Were the Mulvaneys
“You have fallen and you can rise again. The day will come when you walk out of here and begin afresh. But I warn you, Patricia, if you behave as though you belong in the gutter, the gutter is where you’ll end up.”
― The Paper Bracelet
― The Paper Bracelet
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