They've lied about everything. -about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.
A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather, for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.
The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.
I was glad when the invalids were executed
But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains which shut in their world, and shut out everything else, must of necessity be larger than anything hidden beyond.
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.
