Elizabeth

“All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.”
― Dexter Filkins, The Forever War

“Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake