Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

by John Green

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

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.

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.