Pragi > Pragi's Quotes

“At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be...
This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation: Library Edition

“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“He became the hook upon which she hung her whole self.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“All the bad stuff gets forgotten, and that is what stays. What lingers is the fact they couldn't cope without you. You were essential. Our system, our military, operates pretty much superbly in an emergency. Out there, you were finally free and needed. Freedom! At moments like that, the Russian people show how great they are. How special! We'll never be like the Dutch or Germans. And we'll never have good roads or groomed lawns. But we'll always have heroes!”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“To my mind, the hundreds of bio-burial sites left in the Zone are like pagan temples. Only, to which gods were these sacrifices being offered? The God of Science and Knowledge, or the God of Fire?”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“The police and soldiers stencilled some numbers. By one of the houses, somewhere in the street, they wrote, '70 curies', '60 curies'. We'd been living on our potatoes, our spuds, forever, and here they were saying we couldn't eat them! And they wouldn't let us have onions or carrots, either.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“I go to the graveyard. My mum is there. My little daughter. She died of typhus in the war. We brought her to the graveyard, buried her, and just then the sun came out from behind the clouds. It was shining so brightly I felt like going back and unburying her.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“So, my love, have you understood my sadness? Pass it on to the people, though I might not be around by then. They'll find me in the earth. Under the roots.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

“There were no saboteurs: just roetgens and curies.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster