Rachel Lee

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

“Cal watched his brother triumph over sins he had never committed.”
― John Steinbeck

“An awful new realization hits me. My brother and I are the atonement to compensate for a fatal error in belief. No wonder our mother has such strange notions of parenting, and such fierce resistance to letting us go. We alone can justify our father’s death.”
― Philip Yancey, Where the Light Fell

“Microbes challenge my very understanding of myself- what am "I," in the end, if half of me isn't me, and the half of me that isn't me dictates some of "my" thinking and feeling? What does it mean to be a person whose consciousness, whose love and longing and fear, can be snuffed out by an overgrowth of bacteria that neither love nor long nor fear? How absurd that I can be murdered by that venomous little atom!”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection