Nicky

“Racialized medicine no longer maintained that high rates of consumption among white people was a sign of white superiority; instead, racialized medicine maintained that high rates of consumption among Black people was a sign of white superiority.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“To the ones who hunger—
for love, for time, or simply to be free”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“When she was younger, she thought that the blood of kings and governors must be gold, for they are a different kind, closer to the gods and constellations. But the drops that fall copiously from the governor’s chest are red. No different from her own.”
― Costanza Casati, Babylonia

“Eliminating the risk of bovine TB is one of the reasons we began pasteurizing milk; no doubt Dr. Koch would be bummed to learn we don't call it Kochizing milk.”
― John Green