Status Updates From The Day of the Triffids

“You know, one of the most shocking things about it is to realise how easily we have lost a world that seemed so safe and certain.”

I never ever post about quotes but this one hit a little bit too close to home this morning.

"I had not a moment's doubt that Josella meant every word she said. I ruminated a little on the ways of purposeful, subversive-minded women like Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Fry. You can't do anything with such women - and they so often turn out to have been right after all."

And if I hit John Wyndham's contemporary male writers over the head with this quote.