Sublime
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Our patients’ lives and identities may be in our hands, yet death always wins.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Even though they’re wearing a ski mask, have a knife between their teeth, and a sack of money slung over their shoulder, we believe them when they tell us they’re in the banking business.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
And because denial, fabrication—storytelling—was her way of staying one step ahead of her life, how could any of us tell her she was wrong?
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
voyeurism
Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
She was a harbinger of the sub rosa, the new world awaiting me in just a few weeks.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Rachel Naomi Remen, who once observed,
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
Helen
Maggie Stiefvater • The Raven Boys
I am a strong supporter of those who bring back the stories of their heritages, preserving them, saving them from death by neglect. Of course, it is the old people who are the bones of the entire healing and spiritual structures everywhere on the face of the earth.