Era Kalchik

“You don’t have to spend much time with the elderly or those with terminal illness to see how often medicine fails the people it is supposed to help. The waning days of our lives are given over to treatments that addle our brains and sap our bodies for a sliver’s chance of benefit. These days are spent in institutions—nursing homes and intensive-care units—where regimented, anonymous routines cut us off from all the things that matter to us in life.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015

“Aparțineau acelei clase din marea burghezie franceză care prefera să-și vadă copiii fără pâine, fără carne și aer decât fără diplome...”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

“And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

“How sad that for some, the idea of God is the perfect excuse to see problems in their life and do nothing about it.”
― Daniel Mangena