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“And he'd looked straight back at her, holding her professional eye contact, and said yes, thankyou doctor, I do understand, yes. And he'd coughed,…

— Jon McGregor

“Because there wasn’t anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen table with a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic…

— Ann Gimpel

“Your shelled bed I remember. Father, this thick air is murderous. I would breathe water.”

— Sylvia Plath

“Annie," Tilly said. "If I wanted to suck vile fluids out of a flaccid and indifferent tube, I'd have stayed on Earth with my…

— James S.A. Corey

“Are you sure I can’t have a little sniff of Oxy?” the doctor asked. He brightened. “I’d share. We could get fucked up together.”

— Joe Hill

“The doctor gave him two weeks to live. I'd give him more, if I could.”

— Jack Johnson

“He wouldn't call a glass of water half full or half empty; he'd assume it was poisoned and run away. ”

— Michael Reisman

“I hear a siren and, if we weren’t already in a hospital, I would have assumed they were coming for nearly everyone in this…

— Michael F. Stewart

“We're afloat in amniotic fluid.’ ‘How's that?’ ‘Salt water. It's chemically almost identical with the fluid surrounding an unborn baby.”

— Frank Herbert

“then went to the refrigerator and got a small bottle full of blood.”

— Dean Koontz

“I think back to the last thing Dave said to me and try to imagine what escaping oxygen would look like. It looks a…

— A.S. King

“I should have known then it wasn´t nothing , as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn…

— Suzanne Finnamore