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"Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura."
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"When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting."
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"Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that. It's disheartening. Like, cancer is in the growth business, right? The taking-people-over business. But surely you haven't let it succeed prematurely."
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"I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, his father simply couldn't stand the sight of sickness and especially his own son's sickness, because he thought all sickness was sickness of the will. Mr Willard had never been sick a day in his life."
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"My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner."
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"In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them."
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"The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy."
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"Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of."
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"There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer."
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"ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot support yourself standing.. you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive.. your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk.. like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh."
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"My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations."
Imagination
"This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library."
Loss
"There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough."
Wisdom
"The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything."
Philosophy
"Physical intimacy isn't and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy."
Love
"This is all so CHILDISH PATHETIC. YOU'RE EMBARASSING. GET OVER IT GET OVER IT GET OVER IT. But he did not quite know what "it" was."
Emotion
"Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it."
Action
"If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricaine."
Emotion
"I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me."
Identity
"So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost."
Life
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