Katherine E. Standefer
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Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
8 editions
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2020
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“In the shower I stood for a long time thinking about all the days I’d berated my body as fat, for not running fast enough, for being big-shouldered and big-hipped. For eye circles, for pimples, for wide feet and a big nose. For a heart defect. For having symptoms I didn’t want. I understood, finally, that my body was real. It was not some illusion. There was not some other version of it I would ever have. It was me, and I had almost lost it. We had almost been lost.”
― Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
― Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
“began to say it aloud with the kind of knowing that seven-year-olds can have: I would become a writer in a cabin in Wyoming.”
― Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
― Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
“As we hiked deep into the forest, I swallowed down anger as my clients—mostly older and wealthy, often conservative—weighed in on the health-care debates, usually on the side of politicians whose plans would have left me without care for the foreseeable”
― Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
― Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life