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Stockholm Stockholm by Catherine Steadman
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“(...) we all do what we can to survive.”
― Catherine Steadman, Stockholm
“Change can be frightening; the future can be frightening”
― Catherine Steadman, Stockholm
“They say if you are attractive enough, you can get away with almost anything.”
― Catherine Steadman, Stockholm
“In my defence, no one really knows how much they can take until they finally reach their limit”
― Catherine Steadman, Stockholm
“Out of medical school, there's a kind of joke that you pick the speciality that you need the most help with
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― Catherine Steadman, Stockholm
“Thirteen years as a practising psychiatrist ought to have taught me better than to awaken dormant things in other people - but I stand by the idea that love should be honest with itself, that anything else is just duty”
― Catherine Steadman, Stockholm
“His proposal was one of the most “gratifying” moments of my life. A castle stormed, a victory won, the spoils mine. The uncontrollable caught, bound immobile. Two people giving themselves to each other, all their flaws and intentions clear. Real love.”
― Catherine Steadman, Stockholm
“no one really knows how much they can take until they finally reach their limit.”
― Catherine Steadman, Stockholm
“The sky is marbled with moving streaks of jade, lime, and ultraviolet as if the wind were blowing it. The night air’s on fire.”
― Catherine Steadman, Stockholm
“had a beautiful office on the Upper West Side and long-standing patients—start-up loners, terrible mothers, absent fathers, sociopaths, narcissists, sex addicts, people who could not stop and yet could not remember why they had started in the first place. I was very good at my job. I turned dysfunctional parasitic behaviors into high-functioning symbiotic ones. My time was respected and sought after and expensive.”
― Catherine Steadman, Stockholm
“I am a doll made to look like a fully functioning woman, a woman who has a choice in what she does, or thinks, or drinks. But that woman is not real.”
― Catherine Steadman, Stockholm
“quotidian”
― Catherine Steadman, Stockholm