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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich

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There was a Ukrainian woman at the market selling big red apples. ‘Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!’ Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. ‘Don’t worry!’ she says. ‘They buy them anyway. Some need them for ...more

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“But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

tags: heartbreaking, juilie, maddie, maddie-brodatt, sad

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“Please come back soon. The window is always open.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

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“The state uses political violence every day, they only call it terrorism when the poor use it.”
― Flynn Berry, Northern Spy

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“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

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“We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told to build a house.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Emily of Deep Valley

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