Julia Stephanie

“The CDC and three other research groups submitted a paper for publication in the journal Science detailing how they had reconstructed the 1918 H1N1 influenza virus, using virus genes that had been identified in lung samples of patients who died during the 1918 pandemic.”
― Michael T. Osterholm, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs

“Being naked and vulnerable in front of someone you love is an act of trust. Being naked and vulnerable in front of billions of people on social media, turned into an object of ridicule and scorn, is an act of war. The masses turn your picture into a battlefield, covered only in your own blood.”
― Julia Kent, Perky

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I feel like a shipwreck. A house fire nothing but bodies can be pulled from. So full of gaping boards and fallen walls that some days, there doesn't even seem a foundation worth rebuilding upon.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks