But it's love that does us in.

“My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compare…”

“Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the …”

“I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the op…”

“I don't even glance at the herbal teas, I go straight for the real, vile coffee…”