309 quotes found
“What issues sidetrack you from your mission to get well?”
“Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.”
“The Lord chose to give me back my life, not because I deserved it, but because he had work for me to do.”
“There is a fine line between paranoia and sensibly caring for our already overburdened bodies.”
“With organization comes empowerment.”
“It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.”
“We accept the cures, with the promise of future struggles, in defiance of death.”
“The all-encompassing cure for cancer, heartbreak, irrationality, drug addiction, and every other ailment that plagues humanity?Fire.”
“As the doctors told him, he wanted to scream out loud and cry. He held his heavy head up and clenched his teeth and fists. Men dont cry, his grandpa used to say. Men dont cry. 8But he cried. Like a...”
“In life we always have some measure of control whether it be over our emotions or choices, but when it comes to cancer? The only thing you can control is how you respond to it”
“Its like Im on a roller-coaster ride, but Im not allowed to get off. Im strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl of the track swirls into the air.”
“I told her that the pills will let her slip off and that when a person dies there comes a long clean sleep. Thats all, Alexandria whispers, echoing after her, a long clean sleep.”
“Our tainted world looms within us, every one.”
“Dreams are built around the word hello, but in the end fate only knows the word goodbye.”
“Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we cant predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.”
“Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right. "Migratory cancer cells" are amoebic formations. They are produced from disintegrating tissue and thus...”
“Only one person was conspicuously missing from the (American Society of Clinical Oncology, ASCO) party - Dennis Slamon. Having spent the afternoon planning the next phase of Herceptin trials with b...”
“Nothing is invented; nothing is extraneous. Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own [. . .] this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate...”
“Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.”
“I'm ready," she promised. She kissed his jaw and then rubbed her cheek against it, letting out a low hum of arousal at the feel of his stubble on her skin. He had a scent that every single one of h...”
