Joy Liberatore

“Rats!” Papou howled at us in English, maybe looking for sympathy. ‘I can’t have rats in my bakery!”
He had a point. The undead come and go, but the New York City Department of Health is forever.”
― Rick Riordan, Wrath of the Triple Goddess

“But we don’t pray to change the world (or, in this case, the cactus); we pray to change ourselves, and so I continue my supplications—my begging and protestations—in the hopes that I may alter my own perception of this bitter flavor.”
― Melissa Broder, Death Valley

“Framing illness as even involving morality seems to me a mistake, because of course cancer does not give a shit whether you are a good person. Biology has no moral compass. It does not punish the evil and reward the good. It doesn’t even know about evil and good.

Stigma is a way of saying, “You deserved to have this happen,” but implied within the stigma is also, “And I don’t deserve it, so I don’t need to worry about it happening to me.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“Please help me to see him as You do.”
― Melissa Broder, Death Valley