Welcome to the secret wing of County Hospital …Where…

“I’d always wanted to think that love could heal anything. But I realized lying there, eyes closed, listening to Asher breathe, that really love…

— Cassie Alexander

“Compulsion, guilt, pick your poison.' Meaty shrugged. 'You make a better nurse than a patient.”

— Cassie Alexander

“Lucas shook his head. "We haven't caught him yet. We're still looking." "Every ship but your four fastest," I murmured to myself.”

— Cassie Alexander

“But if you believe in heaven then you have to believe someone's keeping score. And if someone's keeping score, if what we do really…

— Cassie Alexander

“The Shadows this, the Shadows that—I’d asked Charles about them once, when our breaks had overlapped…But Charles said “they” (complete with scare quotes) lurked…

— Cassie Alexander

“I planned to reintroduce him to my friends lorazepam and oxycodone in a big, big way.”

— Cassie Alexander

“No matter how much I fought him or gave in to him in turns, I couldn’t fuck away my fears.”

— Cassie Alexander

“Nurses are natural kleptos. You don't want to be in a roon without enough supplies, so every time you walk past the med-cart you…

— Cassie Alexander

“We could crawl inside your head and make you but a shell of yourself, a puppet of meat, for which we keep the only…

— Cassie Alexander

“My voice mail message says I work nights and sleep days. Everyone who knows me, knows this. And still, people who aren’t employed at…

— Cassie Alexander

“I sank into the chair and checked to see if the charge nurse could see me—not if I didn’t lean out too far. The…

— Cassie Alexander

“I nodded. Everyone at the hospital wanted to think that their case was special, and if you were a good nurse, you helped them…

— Cassie Alexander

“Nurses are natural kleptos. You don’t want to be in a room without enough supplies, so every time you walk past the med-cart you…

— Cassie Alexander