These doctors, who had long experience with people in pain in addition to their traditional training and schooling, had discovered that nothing happens without communication, treatment based on evidence of outcome, and what used to be called a good bedside manner.
Marni JacksonMotherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.
Marni JacksonAt a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.
Marni JacksonHousehold hollowness comes around in irregular cycles, like meteor showers. But the true sign of a bad patch is that it never feels temporary or fixable. It has a shudder of the inevitable to it. The thought crosses your mind that when love goes it goes all at once, and forever.
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