Yamane Daphne Quotes & Sayings

Don't you dare feel guilty for letting those who dim your light, go. Not everyone you meet deserves to be a character in your story. — Nikki Rowe

He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as if the world had been designed to make him unhappy. — Cassandra Clare

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience. — Jason Katims

It is unsettling to find how little it takes to defeat success in medicine. You come as a professional equipped with expertise and technology. You do not imagine that a mere matter of etiquette could foil you. But the social dimension turns out to be as essential as the scientific
matters of how casual you should be, how formal, how reticent, how forthright. Also: how apologetic, how self-confident, how money-minded. In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones. They are what make medicine so complex and fascinating. How each interaction is negotiated can determine whether a doctor is trusted, whether a patient is heard, whether the right diagnosis is made, the right treatment given. But in this realm there are no perfect formulas. — Atul Gawande

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind. — Cotton Mather

I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar. — Michelle Dockery