Sarah

“Your life story is really about how the hands of history caught you up, played with you, and you with them. History plays for keeps; individuals play for time.”
― Gregory Maguire, Egg & Spoon

“Yet, by March 9, when Italy imposed its first lockdown, the country had suffered only about nine thousand coronavirus cases and five hundred deaths. With one of the world’s oldest populations and harsh northern winters, Italy regularly suffered severe winter flu epidemics. In the winter of 2014–2015 and again in 2016–2017, influenza and other flu-like illnesses had killed more than forty thousand Italians—eighty times as many as had died from the coronavirus at the time of the lockdown.”
― Alex Berenson, Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

“Walmart has more annual revenue than Spain and more than twice as much as Russia.”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

“People who see their own grave are rare. But I think that, before people build their houses, they should first make their graves. That’s because people who have seen their grave know how to cherish life.”
― Kim Un-Su, The Cabinet