Leukemia Quotes

“Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends even before they speak, that it was Edward. He sounded as if he were calling from the bottom of a well. I still thank my stars that I didn't say what I nearly said, because the good professor's phone pals were used to cheering or teasing him out of bouts of pessimism and insecurity when he would sometimes say ridiculous things like: 'I hope you don't mind being disturbed by some mere wog and upstart.' The remedy for this was not to indulge it but to reply with bracing and satirical stuff which would soon get the gurgling laugh back into his throat. But I'm glad I didn't say, 'What, Edward, splashing about again in the waters of self-pity?' because this time he was calling to tell me that he had contracted a rare strain of leukemia. Not at all untypically, he used the occasion to remind me that it was very important always to make and keep regular appointments with one’s physician.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Awareness Makes a Cure Possible.”
― Sydney Davies

“It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.”
― Christie Cote, Rain

“It may be possible that Leukemia in children is linked to the location of the fuse board and the electrical meter on the home.”
― Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics

“I will never forget their faces, their incomprehension and tears. Amid all the wrongness of that moment, I knew something was required of me. To hide my fear and offer them a glimpse of a future none of us knew had any certainty. I have no memory of this but my mother told me years later that I looked into her face and said, 'I'm not going to die, I'm going to write a book.' To commit to writing, or art, is to commit to living. A self imposed deadline as a means of continued existence. It has taken me a long time to write that book and here I am, so very far from that awful night”
― Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations

“I decided to call my cancer the little c rather than the Big C. I wasn't giving it that much power over my life!”
― Cathy Koning, Life Blood: Lessons from one woman who survived serious illness against the odds

“She was diagnosed with leukemia when Lily was six months old.... Diana and I had looked at each other, no clue, nowhere to begin, certainly no answers, other than the largest answer, that is, the answer that emerged in how, despite or maybe in lieu of the terror of the situation, our bodies had involuntarily gravitated toward each other, how our petty grudges and growing disagreements—all the fissures and loggerheads that had been emerging in our marriage—had given way.”
― Charles Bock