309 quotes found
“When one person gets cancer, the whole family gets cancer.”
“No, we love war.War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment.It's the mark of a very, very young soul, Mr. Whittier used to say, to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone fro...”
“Life is too precious to waste any of it regretting the past.”
“Because really, what do you have to lose? Your life? That's no big deal, I promise you. When you find out you might die, you're finally allowed to live like you never have before. If you lose your ...”
“I've learned so much during my time with cancer. It's taught me a lot about who I am. It revealed to me my true goals and priorities. It introduced me to a brand new world where time isn't wasted, ...”
“We can look at our tattoos from cancer treatment as awful reminders of a ghastly time in our lives, or we can use them as reminders of what God brought us through.”
“Nothing takes God by surprise, not even cancer.”
“The pain he feels in his own gut is either something to do with the caffeine, or the stress of realizing that if it's not snipers or blindness stealing your children, it's cancer coming to snipe yo...”
“The devil sought to destroy me and discredit my testimony. But God wanted me where I would testify to others about his saving power.”
“Cancer may have blindsided you, but it didn't blindside God.~ Strength Renewed”
“The Hegemony had known how to treat cancer, but most of the gene-tailoring knowledge and technology had been lost after the Fall.”
“Cancer is finite. God is way bigger.”
“My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. Theyre made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner”
“Yes? he asked, looking at me over the sheet.Im a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.Oh, a writer, eh?Yes.Are you sure?No, Im not.What do you write?Short stories mostly. And Im halfway throu...”
“But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.”
“Maybe I was supposed to hate Caroline Mathers or something because shed been with Augustus, but I didnt. I couldnt see her very clearly amid all the tributes, but there didnt seem to be much to hat...”
“The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer”
“God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight.”
“God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe.”
“She did not begin to tell real lies until Rosa was in hospital suffering that filthy rot that left her all eaten out inside, as light and fragile as a pine log infested with white ant”