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“In a world where everyone can eat, and access healthcare, and be treated humanely, tuberculosis has no chance. Ultimately, we are the cause.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“It was an illness of the breath, of the place where the body interacts with the atmosphere, a process so sacred that the Hebrew word ruach, the Chinese word chi, the English word spirit, and the Inuit word sila all derive from words meaning breath or breathing. Breath is liferespiration is the most visible and irrefutable sign that we are still here. To inspire is to breathe in; to expire is to breathe all the way out.”
― 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

“But survival is not primarily an act of individual will, of course. It's an act of collective will.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection