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41 " After what I had been through, I needed something far steadier than love. "
― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds
42 " My father had told me the same general advice, only in far fewer words. Respect the disease. It is powerful. He also told me the disease has no intent. It doesn’t want anything. It has no malevolent desire to kill. If it could talk, it would not say, “I want to make you ill! I want to bring you to the brink of death! I want to kill!” It would say only, “I make people ill. I bring them to the brink of death. I can kill.” The disease is like the machine that does what it does but has no cognizance of self. When a machine stops working, it does not care. And it doesn’t celebrate when it starts working again. "
43 " The hospital at Ellis was the stationary middle place where what you were and what you would be were decided. "
44 " I knew I would need a place to make sense of what I had lost and yet never had. "
45 " I had known for less than a day that I understood nothing, really, about love, only that it was the most devastating, most spectacular, most desirable force on earth. "
46 " I believe I have you to thank for reminding me that pictures on an urn, though lovely, are not real. Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful. "
47 " Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.” He sighed at this remembrance. “Hurried people miss many things. They see only what is right on top. . . .” His voice fell away. "
48 " Fire is always hungry for things that don’t belong to it. "
49 " I had discovered early at Ellis that a hospital nurse performs the same tasks day after day after day, and that an odd solace can be found in the monotony of those duties. Were it not for the steady thrum of the routine, the spectacle of unending human suffering would be a hospital nurse’s undoing. "
50 " It’s what I lost. I could see him turning the sentence around in his head. Examining it as he would a wound or an illness. And I saw in his eyes the moment he realized that fixers like him and me can easily mend broken things. But we can’t easily find lost things. Finding something you lost takes a different kind of skill. "
51 " People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason.Those people are not the once who wish they could fold back time and make different choice. They don't lie awake at night and whisper , If only..... "
52 " The words fell out of my mouth like slivers of shattered glass. "
53 " thoughts are not things you can give or not give. Thoughts are thrust upon you. You can only hope that thoughts that you don’t want will tire of you at some point and flutter away "
54 " Everything beautiful has a story it "
55 " what you can still dream about is often sweeter than the reality. "
56 " Sometimes fear of a thing is worse than the thing itself. "
57 " You can only hope that thoughts that you don’t want will tire of you at some point and flutter away. I "
58 " Good luck made you feel kissed by heaven and smiled upon by the Fates. "