Haley The Caffeinated Reader

“I know you know,” Daddy Deke said. “But I’ll tell you sumn for free—there ain’t nothing wrong with the feelings you having, but them feelings are yours. Ain’t nobody else responsible for ’em, dig? You can’t carry nothing for nobody else, and cain’t nobody carry what’s yours for you.”
― Alex Jennings, The Ballad of Perilous Graves

“She passed so near that he could have touched her”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“We cannot address TB only with vaccines and medications. We cannot address it only with comprehensive STP programs. We must also address the root cause of tuberculosis, which is injustice. In a world where everyone can eat, and access healthcare, and be treated humanely, tuberculosis has no chance. Ultimately, we are the cause.

We must also be the cure.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“We are all trapped here, our stories already written.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead