Yanislava Kirilova

“Second, you are alive. For the tiniest moment in the span of eternity you have the miraculous privilege to exist.”
― Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island

“So here we were, fifty men and fifty women, with IQs over 150 and bodies of unusual health and strength, slogging elitely through the mud and slush of central Missouri, reflecting on the usefulness of our skill in building bridges on worlds where the only fluid is an occasional standing pool of liquid helium.”
― Joe Haldeman, The Forever War

“I dinna want to disappoint ye, but we's in a cellar right here, and it's full o' tatties.'
After a while a voice said: 'So where izzit?'
'Maybe it's got the day off?'
'What's a demon need a day off for?'
'Tae gae an' see its ol' mam an' dad, mebbe?'
'Oh, aye? Demons have mams, do they?”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

“But we might go to war to keep some damn island that's only useful in case we have to go to war, right?”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo