The future I had imagined collapsed, and I had to build meaning out of a shorter runway. Kalanithi, surgeon to patient.

I can't go on. I'll go on. The epigraph he chose was the review he wrote of his own life.

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller, quoted mid-book.