Laxman

“How can I accept a world where over a million people will die this year for want of a cure that has existed for nearly a century?”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“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

“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)

“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