Ashley Jacobs

“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

“There’s an honesty to these places, if you’re willing to look, because the dead don’t have a deceitful bone in their bodies.”
― Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries

“That's the key isn't it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it...that's the important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder." She gestured to the stars zooming past. "The struggle with that darkness is worth it, just to see such things.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Salem has long embodied a contradiction in the bedrock of American consciousness: upright piety mixed with hypocrisy, sober religion mixed with violent hysteria. Hawthorne’s own great-great-grandfather John Hathorne was one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials of 1692, and Nathaniel had grown up knowing about the family legend—that one of Hathorne’s victims had cursed him and his descendants.”
― Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places