Eric Mikhail

“It still can be. The same sense of hubris affects us today as affected the generation that was blindsided by the Spanish Influenza. A modern epidemic comparable with the great ones of the past is a thing more akin to science fiction to most people living today rather than something seen as a realistic possibility.”
― Dan Carlin, The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

“There are, he determines, infinite ways his mother doesn’t die that night and only one way she does.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“He imagined her impressed by his maturity, by his willingness to share her with another man. But this formulation was partial. It did not take into account the fact that she’d loved him, or that he’d broken her heart. It did not consider that her heart might be broken still, or that every time they slept together, it broke a little more.”
― Daniel Alarcón, At Night We Walk in Circles

“But no matter how you die, the world always stays the same.”
― Young-Ha Kim, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself