Catherine

“Framing illness as even involving morality seems to me a mistake, because of course cancer does not give a shit whether you are a good person. Biology has no moral compass. It does not punish the evil and reward the good. It doesn’t even know about evil and good.

Stigma is a way of saying, “You deserved to have this happen,” but implied within the stigma is also, “And I don’t deserve it, so I don’t need to worry about it happening to me.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“Where are the drugs? The drugs are where the disease is not, and where is the disease? The disease is where the drugs are not.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“He loved that word. Who wouldn't? "Encouraged." Like courage is something we rouse ourselves and others into.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“We can do and be so much for each other—but only when we see one another in our full humanity, not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection