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“I think, therefore I spam.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody — a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

“The sands of time are quicksands, said Adam One. So much can sink into them without a trace. And what a blessing when those things that sink away are needless worries.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

“We’re using up the Earth. It’s almost gone. You can’t live with such fears and keep on whistling. The waiting builds up in you like a tide. You start wanting it to be done with. You find yourself saying to the sky, Just do it. Do your worst. Get it over with.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

“Why were the bad people doing that? Because of Money. Money was invisible, like Fuck. They thought that Money was their helper; they thought he was a better helper than Fuck. But they were wrong about that. Money was not their helper. Money goes away just when you need it. But Fuck is very loyal.”
― Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam

“Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if it had a voice?”
― Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam

“But not, surely, for the first time in human history. How many others have stood in this place? Left behind, with all gone, all swept away. The dead bodies evaporating like slow smoke; their loved and carefully tended homes crumbling away like deserted anthills. Their bones reverting to calcium; night predators”
― Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam

“Cars growl in the streets; leaves whisper in the sky; blood rustles through her inner ears. In the stairwell, in the kitchen, even beside her bed, grown-up voices speak of despair.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Who knew love could kill you?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Every process must by law decay.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness. That’s God’s truth.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Some griefs can never be put right.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“We reshape the story even when we believe we are simply repeating it.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

“the most wretched of sights, the just-crushed spirit.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

“The American and British armies in the Second World War paid a high price for the privilege of the profoundly anti-militaristic ethos of their nations.”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon

“At Arnhem, the British fielded too many gentlemen and not enough players.”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon

“Above all, war was a reminder of the savagery of life.”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon

“Stalin’s policies had driven millions more to starvation and even cannibalism.”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon

“Polish women and children were used as human shields for the advance of German troops.”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon

“Washington displayed a remarkable indifference to the political future of the eastern battlefields until it was too late.”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon

“After more than five years of strife in the name of freedom, tens of millions of people were merely to exchange one tyranny for another. Some”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon

“To this day, mass graves of Stalin’s victims continue to be uncovered in eastern Poland. As”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon

“Yet since 1917 the Soviet Union had created an edifice of self-deceit unrivalled in human history.”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon

“Never in history have lies been such vital instruments of diplomacy and policy.”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon

“All his life, the ruler of Russia displayed towards able comrades a blend of admiration and envy which impelled him to murder most of them sooner or later.”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon

“Near a large inn, the ‘Roter Krug,’ stood a barn and to each of its two doors a naked woman was nailed through the hands, in a crucified posture.”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon