“But maybe its the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises an...”

“Dont sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?”

“What hasty preperations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things were sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope well use, and too light of wha...”

“For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls...”

“Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and deciding hes going to scale Kilimanjaro because he cant stop imagining the view from the top, the p...”

“It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we dont mean gaining self-knowledge or understanding ones true nature but rather how at some point you can see most plainly tha...”

“Disobey God and you are forgiven. Disobey Nature and you get disease.”

“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a sid...”

“Cancer. The word meant the same to me as tsunami or piranha. I had never seen them; I wasn't even quite sure what they were, but I knew they were bad and I knew in many cases they were deadly.”

“Mother Nature is relentless and forward. When we do not live according to her laws she rewards us with disease.”

“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”

“They are very good odds. And I know that my scientific brain believes them, if not my panic-ridden, maternal one. Those odds should have made a difference to my reaction. I should have been able to...”

“What's meant to be will always find a way”

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”

“Maybe there isnt such a thing as fate. Maybe its just the opportunities were given, and what we do with them. Im beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances dont just happen. We have to make...”