Alexis Bauer Kolak

“He was respectful, though—he wasn’t rude to people, he wasn’t an angry person, he didn’t live there. Some people full-on live in destruction, others buy some real estate and walk around in anger for a little while. My dad would just visit.”
― Lisa Marie Presley, From Here to the Great Unknown

“Insist on your joy.”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

“man brought nothing into this world and he’ll carry nothing out. Sometime we care about stuff too much. We worry when there’s nothing to worry about.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“When I tell people the story of Henrietta Lacks and her cells, their first question is usually Wasn’t it illegal for doctors to take Henrietta’s cells without her knowledge? Don’t doctors have to tell you when they use your cells in research? The answer is no—not in 1951, and not in 2009, when this book went to press. Today”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks