“I flipped through the CT scan images, the diagnosis obvious: the lungs were matted with innumerable tumors, the spine deformed, a full lobe of the liver obliterated.”— Paul Kalanithi, amazon.comTagged: Dying, cancer, first lines of books
“It never occurred to me that you could love someone the same way after he was gone, that I would continue to feel such love and gratitude alongside the terrible sorrow, the grief so heavy that at times I shiver and moan under the weight of it.”— Lucy Kalanithi, amazon.comTagged: Love, Love After Death, Missing You, Grief, Losing Your Husband
“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”— Paul Kalanithi, amazon.comTagged: Knowledge, Never Ending Story
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”— Paul Kalanithi, amazon.comTagged: Ideals, Perfection, Infinitely Striving