Halina Radke

“— it is a great, old-fashioned brick one which helps to keep the kitchen warm and gives us extra hot-water. With the copper lit as well as the range, the kitchen is much the warmest place in the house; that is why we sit in it so much. But even in summer we have our meals here, because the dining-room furniture was sold over a year ago.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“„Вашите собствени деца и внуци ли ви вдъхновиха, за да напишете книгите си?“ е също въпрос, който често ми задават. Искам да кажа следното: Никое друго дете не ме е вдъхновявало толкова, колкото детето, което аз самата бях. Не е задължително да имате деца, за да пишете детски книги. По-важното е добре да помните собственото си детство.”
― Астрид Линдгрен

“She stared at her console, wanting to punch it. Her dream, running to save her life, to save everything, was all going to come true down on the planet’s surface. And when it did, she knew this time she wasn’t going to wake up.”
― Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull burst like a ripe cabbage showering his horrified comrades with viscous brain and bits of bone.”
― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two