The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.