Connie Mcdannell

“Talia ta, szanowne obywatele, znajduje się tera w siódmym rzędzie, u obywatela Parczewskiego, jak raz między banknotem trzyrublowym a wezwaniem do sądu w sprawie o zaległe alimenty dla obywatelki Zielkowej.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov

“What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has been the memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

– John Hersey, quoted in Fallout by Lesley Blume”
― John Hersey

“Are you really a reporter?” asked Brown.
“You already asked me that. Come back to Levita, take the pardon.”
 “I doubt I’ll live long enough to get there,” said Brown bitterly.
“I hope you survive. You are a fighter. And we have the antidote for your habit on
Levita. I suggest you take a vacation. There’s nothing much that’s going to happen here.”
With that she left, leaving Brown more confused than ever.
He was a father, he had a son. And, the Levitians had a cure for his drug-addled body.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.”
― Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder