C

“I think there is a tendency of human beings, doctors and biomedical investigators especially, when they don’t understand something, and they can’t figure it out, and it’s their job to do so, they blame the victim.” He went on. “I think that happens all the time in regards to many medical problems.”
― Tracie White, The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son

“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Banana Yoshimoto

“From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would come, and the day after tomorrow, and so next week, too. I never thought it would be this hard, but I would go on living in the midst of a glomy depression, and that made me feel sick to the depths of my soul. In spite of the tempest raging within me, I walked the night path calmly.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby