Robyn

“Or to think that before Pasteur's discovery of microbes, doctors fought duels over the merits of balsam of Peru vs. tar oil for wound infection. Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion. Still, each generation of physicians imagined that ignorance was the special provenance of their elders.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“A father is a hard thing to compass.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her