Sarah Johnson

“the unfinished grieving, the foul, flat country.”
― Ann Cleeves, Telling Tales

“could not help sometimes comparing the bright house with the faded dreary place out of which it had arisen, and wondering when, in any shape, it would begin to be a home;”
― Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

“Litvinenko was undoubtedly Mayak’s most spectacular victim. But there were thousands of anonymous others in Chelyabinsk province and beyond who were consigned to agonising leukemias and premature deaths. Their suffering played out at home and in hospitals, largely unnoticed, beyond a small circle of family and friends, before an indifferent world.”
― Luke Harding, A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West

“Heresy comes so often not by spreading falsehoods but by the assertion of a single truth, and running that truth in isolation from any balancing”
― Frank Field, Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir