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“It was as if the cure did not exist—because the disease was where the cure was not, and the cure was where the disease was not.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“As one sanatorium visitor wrote, “I do nothing all day but lie here staring at the mountains…. I wish they would rearrange them a bit.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“Yeah, well, Percy wouldn’t want to work for anyone with a sense of humor, would he?” said Ron, now starting on a chocolate eclair. “Percy wouldn’t recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby’s tea cozy.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“twentieth-century TB survivors include Beatle Ringo Starr (who was institutionalized with TB as a teenager),”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection