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

by John Green

The world we share is a product of all the worlds we used to share.

Imagining someone as more than human does much the same work as imagining them as less than human: Either way, the ill are treated as fundamentally other because the social order is frightened by what their frailty reveals about everyone else’s.

the world is inherently more complex than the narratives we impose upon it, just as the reality of experience is inherently more complex than the language we use to describe that reality.