Sapna Ramappa

“Meningitis, like the virus that caused it, wasn't a metaphor or a narrative device. It was just a disease.

But we are hardwired to look for patterns, to make constellations from the stars. There must be some logic to the narrative, some reason for the misery.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I wonder if you have people like that in your life, people whose love keeps you going even though they are distant now because of time and geography and everything else that comes between us. Todd and I have both floated down through the decades—he’s a doctor now—but the courses of our lives were shaped by those moments we shared upstream.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

“To accept the demonization of the marginalized as inevitable is to give up on the whole human enterprise.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“As the poet Robert Frost put it, "The only way out is through/" And the only good way through is together. Even when circumstances separate us - in fact, especially when they do - the way through is together.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet