Tsubasa Masuwaka Quotes & Sayings

[at the hospital]
"What do you think's taking them so long?"[ ... ]
"Well," I say "They obviously don't think it's a big deal or they would have carted you right back here."
"Or," Lacey says, "they probably know I'm going to die and so they're leaving me out here because they need to help the people who actually have a chance."
"Lacey," I say. "Did you see them bringing in the guys who was bleeding profusely from the head?"
"Yes," she says.
"If that guy has a chance, then you definitely do. — Lauren Barnholdt

Being a buisance is not something you should die of. — Terry Pratchett

It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts. — Maggie Stiefvater

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped. — Christiaan Barnard

Though finally the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of suffering new regret just as you get a glimmer that nothing's worth doing unless it has the potential of to fuck up your whole life — Richard Ford

You can't look at people based on face value. There has to be more. — Carey Anderson

In indigenous cultures including those of Native Americans, menstruation is viewed a time of positive power, rather than evidence of sin and negative power, or as a feminine inconvenience. — Joan Borysenko

Sometimes you may undermine yourself when you are worthy but you need to wake up from sleep and know yourself better. — Auliq Ice

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters. — Salman Rushdie

It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that. — Brandi Carlile

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California. — Joan Didion

As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation. — C.S. Lewis

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader. — David McCullough

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. — Albert Einstein