Bookish Hound

“It’s funny – you don’t think of doctors getting ill.’ It’s true, and I think it’s part of something bigger: patients don’t actually think of doctors as being human. It’s why they’re so quick to complain if we make a mistake or if we get cross. It’s why they’ll bite our heads off when we finally call them into our over-running clinic room at 7 p.m., not thinking that we also have homes we’d rather be at. But it’s the flip side of not wanting your doctor to be fallible, capable of getting your diagnosis wrong. They don’t want to think of medicine as a subject that anyone on the planet can learn, a career choice their mouth-breathing cousin could have made.”
― Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

“A relationship with a higher power is often best practiced alone.”
― Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

“We need to kill with kindness. Cure with compassion.”
― Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

“Longing is sort of a gross word. So is ache. Or yearn. They're all kind of gross. But that's how I had felt about touching, kissing, Coley.”
― Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post