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“As the man who had cleared his throat drew up and raised his machete, Okonkwo looked away. He heard the blow. The pot fell and broke in the sand. He heard Ikemefuna cry, ‘My father, they have killed me!’ as he ran towards him. Dazed with fear, Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down. He was afraid of being thought weak.”

“Nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine and to be violent, but somehow he still preferred the stories that his mother used to tell”

“And so we must fight not just for reform within the system but also for better systems that understand human health not primarily as a market, but primarily as a shared priority for our species.”

“Tuberculosis is so often, and in so many ways, a disease of vicious cycles: It’s an illness of poverty that worsens poverty. It’s an illness that worsens other illnesses…It’s an illness of weak healthcare systems that weakens healthcare systems. It’s an illness of malnutrition that worsens malnutrition. And it’s an illness of the stigmatized that worsens stigmatization.”

“Black people were not more susceptible to TB because of factors inherent to race; they were more susceptible to tuberculosis because of racism.”

“TB’s parallel journey with capital.”

“After all, the entire premise of colonialism relied on white supremacy, and the entire premise of spes phthisica maintained that only superior and civilized (read: white) people could become consumptive. Acknowledging that consumption was common among enslaved, colonized, and marginalized people would have undermined not just the theory of the disease, but also the project of colonialism itself.”

“In a place where the formal healthcare system is not particularly effective at treating an illness, it is easy to imagine how more trusted spaces and people— like churches and faith healers—can be a better bet than doctors and hospitals.”

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”

Not to pit two bad bitches against each other but the Hazel, Frank, Percy trio >>>> the Jason, Piper, Leo trio

Octavian stammered, “I wasn’t-“

“-part of the quest,” Percy said. “Yes, I know. And you’re wise to let me explain, since I was.”

get her jade!

“First rule: Males don’t speak without permission.”

if only ❤️

“After struggling with sea monsters and running over gorgons in a police car, Percy wasn’t scared of gangs.”

Alright.

“They got off in Oakland. They had to walk through some rough neighborhoods, but nobody bothered them. Whenever the local gang members came close enough to look in Percy’s eyes, they quickly veered away.”

Not the “local gang members”…🫥

“You guys don’t have a magical BART train or something,” Percy asked.

all BART trains are magical BART trains 🚊🫡

“Just down to the BART station,” Terminus said anyway. “Change trains at Twelfth Street in Oakland. You want Fruitvale Station. From there, you can walk or take the bus to Alameda.”

Bay Area Rapid Transit you will ALWAYS be famous!!!!

“You seem to be clean,” Terminus decided. “Do you have anything to declare?”

“Yes,” Percy said. “I declare this is stupid.”

“So we can catch them and deport them,” Percy summed up, “but they’ll just keep coming back across.”

this fox news ass quote

“This man looked like that awful Adolf Hitler. He had no mustache, but otherwise he could’ve been Hitler’s twin - or his father.”

Now why would you say that.

“You must unite the heroes of Olympus and sail together to meet the giants on the ancient battlegrounds of Greece.”

Loooove a good title drop

“You’ll make a spicy appetizer!”

I know she was referring to Leo’s fire abilities, but saying this to a Latino kid is kinda wild.

“He would’ve looked pretty scary if he hadn’t been five feet zero. When he stood up in the aisle, one of the students called, ‘Stand up, Coach Hedge!’”

“My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.”

real. 😔

“These fashionable young assistants are a fun window into what the rest of us will be wearing three years from now. From what I’ve seen lately, we can look forward to the return of prairie skirts and the male shag. (The prairie skirts will be on men and the male shag will be on women.)”

this is literally that twitter meme of apollo hitting people who are just trying to be funny with the gift of prophecy

“It was a trick of his, to set a sentence out like a plate on a table and see what you would put on it.”

“At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers…But of course that was never a real danger. Sons were never punished.”

“I would come to know this type of man, jealous of his little power, to whom I was only a woman.”