Vaughn Forston

“Scientists had been trying to keep human cells alive in culture for decades, but they all eventually died. Henrietta’s were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty-four hours, and they never stopped. They became the first immortal human cells ever grown in a laboratory.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“I’m only “in-country” for minutes when the rocket attack that kept the plane from landing resumes with a vengeance.”
― Michael Zboray, Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“I believe that one of the reasons that Christians are ineffective is because we do not take enough time with the Holy Spirit to know the will of God; and just as with Joshua and the Israelite, we make decisions with our emotions and warped moral compass.”
― Tolulope Oyewole, The Spirit of Prayer: The Believer's Authority on the Earth