Madeline

“It reminded me that when we know about suffering, when we are proximal to it, we are capable of extraordinary generosity. We can do and be so much for each other -- but only when we see one another in our full humanity, not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“Why should we move mountains to save one patient? Because he is one person. A person, you understand? And anyway, what if he can be the first of many?”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“In the face of all this, it's easy to despair. TB doesn't just flow through the meandering river of injustice; TB broadens and deepens that river.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“That you and I are complements, that we are made to clash and sharpen each other like iron. That you and I will stay bound together by that which is nameless and runs deeper than vows, until the very end, when the isle takes my bones into the ground and my name is nothing but memory carved into a headstone.”
― Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted