There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
“As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.”
“Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.”