Hold my hand. Don't let go.
She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.
It's utterly beautiful not to know my own edges.
Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.
when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life