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“Even now, rejected and gutted, I still wanted to orbit around her, even if she never wanted me to land.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“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

“*1 The reclining wood-slatted chair known as the Adirondack Chair was invented for TB patients, allowing them to rest outdoors without needing their beds wheeled outside.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“I guess the dog tore her doll and she was all freaking out and crying, and Dr. Maddox goes in there and starts talking all soft to her like, ‘Mija, let’s take care of your baby, okay?’ And then he gets his suture kit and starts working on the doll, while his resident started the kid’s stitches, so she wouldn’t notice it. Dios mío, I have never seen anything so sweet.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly