He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.

Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .