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“I look like a watermelon with a great slice hacked out. I say to myself, it's just another border post on the frontier between medicine and greengrocery; growths and tumour seem always to be described as "the size of a plum" or "the size of a grapefruit".”
― Hilary Mantel, Ink in the Blood: A Hospital Diary

“Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“Cowboy up, cupcake.”
― Alexandra Fuller, The Legend of Colton H. Bryant