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“I talked wih her about the help he was going to need. He was going to need nursing care, a hospital bed, an air mattress to prevent bedsores, physical therapy to prevent his muscles from stiffening. Should we look at nursing homes? She was aghast. Absolutely not, she said. She'd had friends in the ones around town, and they'd appalled her. She could not imagine putting him in any of them. We'd come to the same place I have seen scores of patients come to, the same place I'd seen Alice Hobson come to. We were up against the unfixable. But we were desperate to believe that we weren't up against the unmanageable. Yet short of calling 911 the next time trouble hit, and letting the logic and.momentum of medical solutions take over, what were we to do?”

Inevitable Nursing Home Unfixable Medical Solutions Nursing Care

Book:Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“I replayed the words that would forever haunt me. As would Adrian's unfinished sentence: 'So, for instance, if Tony . . .' I knew I couldn't change, or mend, anything now.”

Sad Haunting Unfinished Irrevocable Julian Barnes The Sense Of An Ending Unfixable

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“You're damaged beyond repair that even if I wanted to fix you I couldn't.”

Toxic Alas Toxic Relationships Toxic People Soulless Damaged Irreparable Lost Cause Damaged People Damaged Souls Unfixable Toxic Relationship Love

Author:Ahmed Mostafa

“You're alone, as I'm alone, and the cruelest thing is that finding each other and saying let us be alone together won't solve a thing.”

Alone Andre Aciman Enigma Variations Unfixable Alone Together Unsolvable

Book:Enigma Variations

Source: Enigma Variations

“By dread things I am compelled. I know that. I see the trap closing. I know what I am. But while life is in me I will not stop this violence. No. Oh my friends who is there to comfort me? Who understands? Leave me be, let me go, do not soothe me. This is a knot no one can untie. There will be no rest, there is no retrieval. No number exists for griefs like these.”

Violence Revenge Unstoppable Greek Tragedy Electra Self Aware Sophocles Unfixable

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“I keep having this fantasy about some wide river or channel I'm on the bank of. I can look up, and on the far side is another, better self, holding hands with Mercer—that's his name, my ex—and both of them are watching me flail over here, watching me from the life I'm supposed to have had. When did it become impossible to get there from here? When did that bridge get burned?”

Mistakes Breakup Irrevocable City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg What Ifs Alternate Universe What Could Have Been Burned Bridges Unfixable

Book:City on Fire

Source: City on Fire