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"That's the thing, I guess--how impossible it is to know a thing before you know it. What whiskey will taste like. What it's like to kiss someone. Probably even what it's like to lose a husband. And maybe sometimes, after you learn something for the first time, maybe you don't know any more about it than you did before."

"First sex is like being in a stranger's kitchen, trying all the drawers, looking for a spoon."

"Maggie wondered if there wasn't just one ache in the world: sad, happy, horny, drunk, sorry, satisfied, grieving, lonely. If we believed these to be different feelings but they all came from the same sweet, unbearable spring."

"Wait. what if I am the role I have been waiting for? Oh I cannot tell you the excitement that came over me then. the sense of wonder. Of all that I might do. why wait for the opportunity to act interesting for other people, when I could act for myself?"

"Looking back at my life . . . I could see the whole thing laid out like a straight line. . . . But when I really looked at the line, the only parts that really meant anything to me were the jagged parts . . . the parts that everyone else saw as mistakes."

Finished reading; RTC.

"Am I responsible for that? Did I do that? Caroline Middey wondered at times. But then she always came back to the same answer: Life had don it not her, Caroline Middey. But wasn't she part of life? Should she have known better? There were no answers to these questions."

BCG, developed in 1921, is still the only vaccine for tuberculosis. It is "effective at preventing severe illness in children, especially under the age of 5." It is not effective for adolescents or adults.

"People are especially likely to develop active TB if they have a weakened immune system due to other health problems like diabetes, HIV infection, or malnutrition. And because the disease spreads especially well in crowded living and working conditions like slums and poorly ventilated factories, tuberculosis has come to be seen as a disease of poverty, and illness that walks the trails of injustice and inequity"

"[Reading} seemed a new universe to her. And it was. Everything opened up. Some stories were meant to inform, and others were meant to entertain. Ant then other stories were separate from those . . . " And then poetry "that seemed crafted to relay some secret, and even more than that, some secret about herself. Angelene was mesmerized. What was available for her to know? What secrets did the world hold?"

"When markets tell companies it's more valuable to develop drugs that lengthen eyelashes than to develop drugs that treat malaria or tuberculosis, something is clearly wrong with the incentive structure."

"The only thing worse, perhaps, than knowing for certain . . . was not knowing. That was the sad truth. And Talmadge lived in that uncertainty, he had made his home in it, and there was no possibility of him resting--truly resting--ever again."

"tuberculosis has long been known for sickening and killing those between the ages of twenty and forty-five, during the one period in life when you are supposed to be relatively insulated from illness and death."

"And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Middey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death."

"But he had one of those complicated faces that one had to consider at length to understand how emotion lay on it, to understand it al all. It was like a landscape: that wide and complicated, many-layered expanse."

"many forms of tuberculosis have developed resistance to one of more of the [4] drugs [that are used in combination that are available in poorer countries]. . . It is sometimes present from the beginning; other times it develops after treament begins, especially if treatment is not adequate. [or starts and stops]"

"Tuberculosis is, on many levels, a weird disease. Infections can lie dormant for decades, or for a lifetime. . . It may kill its victims within a few months, or over many years, or not at all. Treatment can appear effective only for the illness to come roaring back for reasons we don't fully understand."

"our species is three hundred thousand years old, but it seems that other species of hominoids were being infected with consumption-like illnesses three million years ago. In fact, tuberculosis is listed in Guiness World Records as the oldest contagious disease."

Finished reading; RTC.

Finished reading; RTC.

Finished reading; RTC.

Quoted from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835 and 1840):

"The citizen of the Southern states becomes a sort of domestic dictator from infancy. The first notion he acquires in life is, that he was born to command, and the first habit he contracts is that of ruling without resistance. His education tends, then, to give him the character of a haughty and hasty man . . ."