Olena Yurchenko

“Don’t tell me about voters. Those people are like ants. All they ever do is live for their work and pay tax for us politicians to buy new shoes that we wear to trample on them.”
― Niq Mhlongo, For you I’d steal a goat

“Water is bothersome in the boot, let alone in the stomach!”
― Nikola Stefan, Tale of Tales – Part I: A Strange Bunch

“I’ll tell you a story. There was once a badly wounded man lying on the battle-field waiting for the surgeon to dress his wound, which was covered with flies. A lightly wounded comrade saw the flies and was going to drive them away. ‘Oh, no,’ cried the wounded man, ‘don’t do that! These flies are almost gorged with my blood now and aren’t hurting me nearly so much as they did at first: if you drive them away their place will be taken at once by hungrier ones, and that will be the end of me.”
― Robert Graves, I, Claudius

“And then I realized that all humans were created for death. They were all born as little struggling innocents, learning to live before they knew what it was about.”
― Anne Rice, Lasher