Dev Jones

“I know her. The skin so young and flawless, the eyes so bright. I hated her then. For thirty years I loathed her and felt guilty about the things she did. But thirty years is long enough. It is time for her to recognize her mistakes and be done with guilt. It doesn't help. It won't fix anything. I look at these photos and now I love her, her paleness, her messy hair, fleshy thighs and all. She is not a monster. She is not dumb, thoughtless, or bad. She is just a girl. I wish I could put my arms around her, comfort her and tell her it will be all right. It hurts me to see how much she needs someone to reassure her. So much time she has wasted and will waste worrying, trying to please, being afraid.

I hear the voice in her head. It is the same voice that speaks in mine. It is my voice. Survive, it says. What else can you do? Survive.”
― Diana Wagman, Life #6

“But science should be based in fact, not fashion. And policy should be based on science. Facts shouldn’t change. And indeed, they don’t. But their interpretation does. Consider the idea that inflammation causes heart disease. First espoused in the late 1800s after the invention of aspirin by Bayer, this idea was relegated to the dustbin of medical science in favor of the cholesterol hypothesis, which reigned for the second half of the twentieth century. But over the last decade, the “inflammation hypothesis” has made a decided comeback, and is now thought to be the primary factor in the genesis of atherosclerotic plaques and thrombosis.”
― John Yudkin, Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It

“All these years I was miserable because I was the one who had been dumped, left, thrown over for a city and a drug he couldn't resist. I remembered his face clearly, his nostrils flared and his lips in a sneer. "Go," he had said, "I don't want you here. Go back to school or whatever. Go now." I didn't remember the pirouettes or the swing or the Chinese waiter, but I clearly remembered his disgust. For thirty years I had wiggled the loose tooth of his disdain. For thirty years I had berated myself for not staying and putting up with it--trying to help him even though he was done with me. And for thirty years I knew I was the one whose heart was broken. I had only that minuscule speck of comfort. I had loved him more than he had loved me. It was my only talent. What would it mean if all these years I'd gotten it wrong?”
― Diana Wagman, Life #6

“First of all, true prophecies don’t go out of style. That’s like saying Darwin’s The Origin of Species is irrelevant because Darwin didn’t know what genes were. Secondly, it is a signpost on a journey of pilgrimage. It provides you with perspective on where you’ve come from, and where you’re going. And lastly, Yudkin correctly fingered the sugar and food industries for what they were, and still are. Those”
― John Yudkin, Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It