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“Tragedy comes quick and loud, while the small acts of decency that follow come slowly and quietly.”
― John U. Bacon, The Great Halifax Explosion

“We want an apocalypse to look like an apocalypse, not a slow day at the mall.”
― Karl Taro Greenfeld, China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic – A Gripping Investigation of SARS, Government Secrecy, and a Viral Crisis

“There were monkeys from India and Bangladesh, musk oxen from Tibet, snakes and lizards from Thailand and Laos, wild dogs from Burma, birds from Vietnam and Indonesia, and bats from Wuhan and Guizhou.”
― Karl Taro Greenfeld, China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic – A Gripping Investigation of SARS, Government Secrecy, and a Viral Crisis

“This is what happens to humanity under pressure. Instead of uniting to achieve a goal, they destroy everything they worked so hard”
― Jasper T. Scott, Final Days

“A dozen or so miles out, Churchill abruptly asked, “Where is Nelson?” Meaning, of course, the cat. Nelson was not in the car; nor did he appear to be in any of the other vehicles. Churchill ordered his driver to turn around and go back to No. 10. There, a secretary cornered the terrified cat and trapped him under a wastebasket. With Nelson safely aboard, the cars resumed their journey. —”
― Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

“Middle-class gorls, with their mammies and daddies paying their way, they could afford to burn their bras and have hairy armpits.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“Más allá de los buenos y los malos, a todos nos terminaba llevando la chingada.”
― Bernardo Esquinca, La octava plaga (Saga Casasola)

“You live your life, and then at the end you have to look back on it. You can either accept it or you can’t, but either way, you die with it behind you.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“Everything is irrelevant. Everything is important.”
― Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

“Health anxiety can make a sane person feel insane, a healthy person feel sick, and a loved person feel unloved.”
― Dennis Simsek, The Essential Guide To Health Anxiety

“Many people think it is the fear of death that perpetuates health anxiety, but I believe that that is just a cover-up to the fear of revealing our true identities and living life to the fullest. This is where making peace with the unknown becomes so critical.”
― Dennis Simsek, The Essential Guide To Health Anxiety

“only of their sickness, of the physicians to be called to attend them, and of the remedies which may restore their health. When any one speaks of the state of the soul, they soon grow weary, and beg to be allowed repose.”
― Alfonso María de Liguori, Preparation for Death

“But being disappointed by the fact that God doesn’t seem to be showing up during times of my greatest need? That wrecks my soul.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered