Maitreyi

“Audrey had never understood why mean words sounded louder than kind ones.”
― Sarah Morgan, One Summer in Paris

“People who are treated as less than fully human by the social order are more susceptible to tuberculosis but it’s not because of their moral codes or choices or genetics, it’s because they are treated as less than fully human by the social order.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“TB in the twenty-first century is not really caused by a bacteria that we know how to kill. TB in the twenty-first century is really caused by those social determinants of health, which at their core are about human-built systems for extracting and allocating resources. The real cause of contemporary tuberculosis, is for lack of a better term, us.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“And so we have entered a strange era of human history: A preventable, curable infectious disease remains our deadliest. That's the world we are currently choosing.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection