Laras

“Anyone can become disabled at any time. We are people just like everyone else.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

“Your. Life. Is. Just. As. Important.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“Academia is so hierarchical, you know? There are all these people who have power over you, who are supposed to guide you and help you become the best possible scientist, but . . . sometimes they don’t know what’s best. Sometimes they don’t care. Sometimes they have their own agenda.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“For every life I can’t save during my shift, one more drop of blood becomes a part of me. No matter how many times I wash my hands, our martyrs’ blood seeps beneath my skin, into my cells. By now it’s probably encoded in my DNA.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow