Chris Adrian Inspirational Quotes (2)

When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.

If I showed you what was in my heart, she said, it would burn you to a cinder. I've tried to burn you similarly, it said, but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.