Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

by Connie Willis

None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one’s never thought of does.”

Fretting doesn’t work properly unless one can visualize disasters in all their particulars, including the weather and the time of day.

I, seeing so many evils, have put into writing all the things that I have witnessed. Lest things which should be remembered perish with time.