Philip Webre

“there are only so many targets for drugs in the body (around eight thousand potential places for drugs to work, by one estimate),”
― Thomas Hager, Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

“Ave Maria gratia plena, is “Hail Mary full of political influence.”
― Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age

“la vida es un asunto que siempre termina mal.”
― Laura Restrepo, Canción de antiguos amantes

“Stories with definitive endings don’t necessarily reflect a belief that the world makes sense, but they do reflect a belief in the power of art to make sense of it. What one finds in Jewish storytelling, though, is something really different: a kind of realism that comes from humility, from the knowledge that one cannot be true to the human experience while pretending to make sense of the world.”
― Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present