"Pain is weakness leaving the body."
- from an anonymous source and written on their team rock by the 2000 York Central soccer team.

we better start

"We better start," he said to the probationer who was scrubbed, gowned, and gloved on the other side of the table, ready to assist him...."We can't finish if we don't start so we better start if we're to finish, yes?"
--Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone, p. 144