Eleanor

“In a 2015 TED Talk, Bill Gates asserted, “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes”
― Michael T. Osterholm, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs

“I believe in spirits. I believe sometimes the people you love and lose, they stay with you. It can be little things. A song coming on the radio at just the right time. Or sometimes it’s like you can hear them say something, some reaction that’s just so perfect for what they would have said if they’d been standing right next to you. Or you feel them still ... loving you.”
― Robin James, Stolen Justice

“When you are trying to survive, the superficial things don’t matter anymore. When you are hanging at the end of your rope, does it really matter what color the hand is that reaches up to help you?”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn’t. It’s the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn’t require a future.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years