Barry Tomasini

“If SARS had conformed to the perverse pattern of presymptomatic infectivity, its 2003 emergence wouldn’t be a case history in good luck and effective outbreak response. It would be a much darker story. The much darker story remains to be told, probably not about this virus but about another. When the Next Big One comes, we can guess, it will likely conform to the same perverse pattern, high infectivity preceding notable symptoms. That will help it to move through cities and airports like an angel of death.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“Are we going in?” Cuthbert asked. “Let the Recording Angel note that I'm against, although I'll offer no mutiny.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“Such lack of understanding was frightening. He’s right, the gunslinger thought. We are broken. Gods help us.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla