The Surgeon Quotes

“We always assume we have time. There’s never any time. Every day we’re alive is borrowed against the unforeseen.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“insane?”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“This fire still holds on, crackling and hissing and giving heat. Maybe it wasn’t people who invented hope and endurance. Perhaps fire discovered that long before we mortals did.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“Maybe pigs will fly, and we can all ride them to work.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“I couldn’t help thinking how grateful I was for my husband and my marriage. I’d die a hermit if I had to date again.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“If the victim is underprivileged—in this case an orphaned child who’d just matured out of the foster system without a dime—then I throw the book at the perp.” She leaned toward him, placing her hands on the edge of the table. “Can you imagine how hard it was for that young boy to raise the money for a beat-up Honda? What that jalopy would’ve meant to him? A slightly better job, maybe even a place to sleep if he ended up in the street somehow. Times are uncertain for everyone.” Her thin, manicured fingers found the seam of her napkin and toyed with it absent-mindedly. “That Honda meant way more to him than the half a million stolen from some corporate tycoon’s cryptocurrency account in last month’s headliner case.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“He gestured with his hand, an unspoken request to be patient. “Some cases, you take them to court and win, deliver the convictions elegantly and effortlessly. But other cases, like the Kestner theft last month, you go after them with a vengeance, with an appetite for blood.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“How I wish I’d taken the time to ask him everything I wanted to, when he was still here, with us. We always assume we have time. There’s never any time. Every day we’re alive is borrowed against the unforeseen.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“her”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“Somewhere in that hotel, on the tenth floor, the future mayor of Chicago was about to get naked and wait for her in bed, rock hard,”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“recite the FEAR acronym in my mind, molding it into a secret mantra, hoping it will make it all go away. False evidence appearing real. That’s what anxiety is.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“We always assume we have time. There’s never any time. Every day we’re alive is borrowed against the unforeseen”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“My worries are scattered by the words of Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero.” How appropriate… monster on the hill.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“Cada dia que vivemos é pedido emprestado ao imprevisto.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“O coração é apenas um músculo, uma bomba que trata de fazer circular o sangue. Já tive corações na mão e é o que são, músculo e tendões, tecido fibroso e impulsos elétricos que lhes dizem quando e como bater. Sabemos que a dor tem lugar no nosso cérebro, mas a culpa é atribuída ao nosso coração, porque é nele que sentimos. Há uma explicação científica para isso, que tem a ver com a adrenalina, o cortisol e a noraepinefrina, e como estas hormonas têm impacto na função do coração, mas não é isso que as pessoas querem ouvir quando têm um desgosto. Não se importam com o porquê de terem o coração partido; sentem apenas que é assim mesmo que ele está.”
― Leslie Wolfe , The Surgeon

“Every day we’re alive is borrowed against the unforeseen.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“Hearing her speak, I couldn’t help thinking how grateful I was for my husband and my marriage. I’d die a hermit if I had to date again.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“she”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“False evidence appearing real. That’s what anxiety is.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“Yes, he had to die,” I whisper, then hold her as she sobs, our tears mingled together. “I made sure of it.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“I’m not entitled. I never was. I worked hard all my life to get to where I am.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“I’d die a hermit if I had to date again.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“that”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“Black kid from”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon

“humiliating.”
― Leslie Wolfe, The Surgeon