“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
“Death is in truth an illness from which we recover”
“There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.”
“There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.”
“Miraculously recover or die. That's the extent of our cultural bandwidth for chronic illness.”