Emily Wright

“I’m a novelist, not a historian of medicine. TB is rare where I live. It doesn’t affect me. And that’s all true. But I hear Shreya, and Henry, and so many others calling to me: Marco. Marco. Marco.”
― 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

“But as a friend once told me, “Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“We all engage in the punitive act of giving a disease a meaning.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection