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Disco For The Departed (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #3) QUOTES

Disco For The Departed (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #3) QUOTES

1 " Fear helps us survive. I've spent a larger portion of my life being afraid than I have being in control. But, here I am. Forget this escape idea, son. It won't help you or your family. Play the game. Find a tall tree somewhere. A tree that's survived all the coups and massacres of history. Go to that tree and dig a hole near its roots and bury your pride there. "

― Colin Cotterill , Disco For The Departed (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #3)

2 " You didn’t have to travel very far out of Vientiane before the road turned to pebbles and potholes. Traveling in a truck was like falling down an endless flight of uneven steps in a coffin. "

― Colin Cotterill , Disco For The Departed (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #3)

3 " The village itself sat ridiculously on top of a high knoll as if, one day in its distant history, it had fled there to escape a flood. "

― Colin Cotterill , Disco For The Departed (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #3)

4 " More panic. More emergencies and disasters. Soon, emergencies fell into a sort of natural ranking: drop-everything emergencies, do-what-you-can emergencies, and you’ll just-have-to-wait emergencies. Disasters, too, had their own ratings: unavoidable, did-the-best-we-could, my fault/your fault. Then there were godlike moments when a decision had to be made as to who most deserved to die. By the afternoon of her second day, Dtui wondered whether her heart had shrunk. She felt less. People had become less human. Death had become less of a tragedy. Her patients weren’t blacksmiths or housewives, they were percentages. “With this little skill and this little pharmaceutical backup, this patient—let’s call her number seven—has a forty percent chance of survival.” It amazed and saddened her that, in order to do her job properly, she had to stop caring. "

― Colin Cotterill , Disco For The Departed (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #3)