Jen M

“We are powerful 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

“About half of all humans ever died before the age of five.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“We do not exist primarily to be plugged into cost-benefit analyses. We are here to love and be loved, to understand and be understood.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“Life is a process that evolves day by day, year by year, and—like it or not—you are engaged in a cycle of growth until the moment you take your last breath. In any kind of growth, there may be failures, mistakes, grief, and pain. Trees lose their leaves, endure cold winters, then come back majestically the next spring. We’re meant to shed our dead skin and the parts of ourselves that don’t serve us, and sometimes it’s immensely painful.”
― Hayden Panettiere, This Is Me: A Reckoning