Mick

“tuberculosis is listed in Guinness World Records as the oldest contagious disease.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“About half of all humans ever died before the age of five.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“He sets the rifle down and we close the gap in between us in half a second. His arms around me, mine around him. Holding tight, as though we're trying to fuse ourselves together. It's familiar and lovely.”
― Erik J. Brown, The Only Light Left Burning

“On my first day of training, she told me, "Death is natural. Children dying is natural. None of us actually wants to live in a natural world." Treating disease, whether through herbs or magic or drugs, is unnatural. No other animals do it, at least not with anything approaching our sophistication. Hospitals are unnatural. As are novels, and saxophones. None of us actually wants to live in a natural world.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection