We toured the city, looking for summer work as a cashier, a waiter, a groundskeeper, anything. I saw parts of Rochester that I had never seen before. After four hours of driving around and searching, filling out application forms against
From Name All the Animals by Alison Smith
These phrases rattled around inside me. I had no name for the feelings they conjured up. Like captions for a set of lost photographs, I knew what the individual words meant, but I didn’t know what to attach them to.
From The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Society and illness often encounter each other in parallel mirrors, each holding up a Rorschach test for the other.