114 Quotes by Lisa Genova

Voleva uccidersi. Pensieri impulsivi di suicidio le si presentarono rapidi e con forza, allontanando e spingendo via ogni altra idea, intrappolandola per giorni in un angolo oscuro e disperato.

In Poland, Chopin is as revered as Pope John Paul II and God. Poland’s Holy Trinity.

Her baby boy would play little league baseball, star in the school play and be good at math. She didn’t know then that she should have had much simpler dreams for her beautiful son, that she should have looked upon her newborn baby boy and thought ‘I hope you learn to talk and use the bathroom by the time you’re seven.

Her unfulfilled life has always been a prison of her own making.

This is why mothers have more babies. We forget about the pain and discomfort and wild inconvenience of pregnancy and childbirth so we can feel that heavenly feeling of holding a warm baby snuggled and content against our chests again. It’s like nothing else in this world.

He laughs again. “You still have the discriminating palate of a farm animal.