Leonore Petr

“I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.”
― Ernest Cline

“Scientists had been trying to keep human cells alive in culture for decades, but they all eventually died. Henrietta’s were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty-four hours, and they never stopped. They became the first immortal human cells ever grown in a laboratory.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“Anything was better than waiting in that hole trying to figure out what to think about in his last moments on earth, waiting to be plumed or slaughtered. He’d rather die trying to live.”
― Mark Bowden, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

“My heart answers to all these meaningless thoughts: The future is ‘now’.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her