Cora

“A faithful friend is a strong protection. A person who has found one has found a treasure. A faithful friend is beyond price, And his value cannot be weighed. A faithful friend is a life-giving medicine. — The Apocrypha”
― Gary Kowalski, Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet

“In the ALLHAT study, there was ultimately no difference in the death rate from heart attacks between the statin-treated group and the no-statin group. Not a single life was saved by statins. The ASCOT-LLA study was the one that allowed Lipitor to claim that their drug lowered the risk of heart disease by 36 percent but for all the bragging, 100 mil was spent on the study and not a single life was saved. What’s more, critics of the study pointed out a trend toward higher rates of heart failure, diabetes, and kidney impairment in the Lipitor-treated group.”
― Jonny Bowden, The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease--and the Statin-Free Plan that Will

“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes wheat, and the lightest parts of ourselves are scattered to the wind.”
― Danielle Teller, All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother

“Compelling fiction often obscures the humble truth.”
― Danielle Teller, All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother