Em

“Looking at history through any single lens causes distortions, because history is too complex for any one way of looking to suffice.”
― John Green

“To inspire is to breath in; to expire is to breath breathe all the way out”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“I never excelled academically, and took some pride in “not fulfilling my potential” in part because I was afraid that if I tried my hardest, the world would learn I didn’t have much that much potential.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I often wonder what it must have been like for my great-grandfather, having trained as a doctor, to be unable to save his own son from disease. We are powerfully enough to light the world at night, to artificially refrigerate food, to leave Earth’s atmosphere and orbit it from outer space. But we cannot save those we love from suffering. This is the story of human history as I understand it— the story of an organism that can do so much, but cannot do what it most wants.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection