Ashley Jacobs

“When the elders expressed doubts about following a preacher who might lace a sermon with “shitfuck” and “cuntpiss,” he insisted his medical condition had no bearing on his right of succession, which came directly from God.”
― Kevin Cook, Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias

“White blood cells are removed from all donations—a process called leukodepletion—because it is in white cells that many infections travel, including the prions that cause variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a vile and violent affliction that anyone growing up in the 1980s will visualize as piles of burning cattle and skeletal humans who fall when they walk because their brains are degenerating.”
― Rose George, Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

“If modern-day Americans want to be historically accurate, then their gratitude at Thanksgiving should be directed to the Old World pathogens that made the settlement of Plymouth Colony possible.”
― Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

“Before the nearest cell tower seared its insidious electrical tentacles into her skull and she could no longer think for herself.”
― Clay McLeod Chapman, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes