“Even the hospital wasn’t safe enough for some of the Alzheimer’s patients” — Matthew Thomas Hospital Copy Share Image
“miles an hour. You and your beakers, your clipboards, your briefcase. You and your boring stories” — Matthew Thomas Boredom Copy Share Image
You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved. — Matthew Thomas Defeat Copy Share Image
Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all. — Matthew Thomas Copy Share Image
“There was something romantic about that, but living with him made his eccentricities curdle into pathologies.” — Matthew Thomas Eccentricities Copy Share Image
“There were places, she now saw, that contained more happiness than ordinary places did. Unless you knew that such places existed, you… — Matthew Thomas Happiness Copy Share Image
“The fact that they were there, that everything they owned wasn’t enough somehow, disturbed her, suggesting a bottomlessness to certain kinds of… — Matthew Thomas Copy Share Image
“My third contention is that at times of extreme pain for the patient, euthanasia is the most humane alternative.” — Matthew Thomas Euthanasia Copy Share Image
“You want much from life, and life will give you much, but there are things it won't give you, and victory today… — Matthew Thomas Defeat Copy Share Image
“The kids who thought of snappy things on the spot never had to worry about being fat or smart or pussies. You… — Matthew Thomas Copy Share Image
“Then he quoted from a French Jesuit named Teilhard de Chardin: “He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the… — Matthew Thomas Absolute certainty Copy Share Image
