Sara Koske

“Whenever he got mad like that, it just made me shut down, even though he’d never laid a hand on me. I never understood why I didn’t talk back or fight with him, but I just knew I couldn’t win. You learn after a long enough period of time that it’s not worth it.”
― Cher, Cher: Part One: The Memoir

“I would never accept a world where Hank might be told: “I’m sorry, but while your cancer has a 92% cure rate when treated properly, there just aren’t adequate resources in the world to make that treatment available to you.” That world would be so obviously and unacceptably unjust. So how can I live in a world where Henry and his family are told that? How can I accept a world where over a million people will die this year for want of a cure that has existed for nearly a century?”
― John Green

“a high school counselor I knew had put it, when they enter adolescence, our children fire us as the bosses of their lives, and it then falls to us to convince them to rehire us as consultants. With my offspring, most days, I wasn’t altogether sure that I would get the job.”
― Ketanji Brown Jackson, Lovely One: A Memoir

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection