#mo

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#assumption #because #bladder #contend #difficult

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#adult #average #feeling #gets #healthy

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool. ↗

— Kesha

#bag #car #carry #costs #designer

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others. ↗

— Bob Kerrey

#force #knowledge #liberating #more #others

But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me! ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#always #breakfast #coach #convincing #eat

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#age #competitive #competitors #exercise #good

I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#eventually #first #forward #found #group

It was never about winning medals or being famous. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#being #being famous #famous #medals #never

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#back #clock #easy #getting #go

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#dependence #happiness #helplessness #love #pathetic