Shima

“We are powerful enough to light the world at night, to artificially refrigerate food, to leave Earth’s atmosphere and orbit it from outer space. But we cannot save those we love from suffering. This is the story of human history as I understand it—the story of an organism that can do so much, but cannot do what it most wants.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before”
― Mae West

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

“But history, alas, is not merely a record of what we do, but also a record of what is done to us.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection