Laxman

“Part of my job is to instruct you in right-thinking so you can become a good servant of the state.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

“I want to pause here to note a defining feature of humans, which is that we like to know why things happen, especially when really bad things happen. And if a reason is not immediately apparent, we will find one.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“I am an author, and I, for one, am deeply offended by the notion that my "waywardness, peevishness, Irascibility, misanthropy, and murky passions" are caused by a "derangement of bodily health," even as I am impressed by a nineteenth-century magazine's ability to absolutely nail my personality.”
― John green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“And so we must remember that illness is not only a biomedical phenomenon, but also a constructed one, and how we imagine leprosy or OCD or tuberculosis matters.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection