I am…sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.

If I showed you what was in my heart,” she said, “it would burn you to a cinder. “I’ve tried to burn you similarly,” it said, “but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.

When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it’s like being asked which eye I’d prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.

I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.