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“And she knew Life well enough to know that if one person in a house gets really miserable for any length of time, the…

— Jenny Wingfield

“He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience.”

— Jane Austen

“She was now precisely in that state when, if her constitution had contained the seeds of consumption, decline, or slow fever, those diseases would…

— Charlotte Brontë

“It was like a curse. He was her antidote. She was his poison.”

— Claire Merle

“She's poison of the worst kind, a slow disease that eats the heart and rapes the soul.”

— C.M. Stunich

“Living, it seemed to her, was the acquiring of bad habits. Dying, the process of rescinding them.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so…

— Edwidge Danticat

“She’s trying to figure out the Plague on her own and not taking what the Rising says for granted.”

— Ally Condie

“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.”

— Gillian Flynn

“I knew she had been right about her situation: while doctors are able to help many people, for her, they could only tell her…

— Garth Stein

“I believe that we will never quite understand the wonderful disease that is the human condition. We can only hope that perhaps as we…

— Preston K. Bullard

“I always felt like half of my life was hers, but I wonder if she didn’t feel that half my disease was hers, too.”

— Tracy Guzeman