Cut Quotes

“A wall of silence. There are a lot of people on this side of the wall. On the other side, you are alone.”
― Annelie Wendeberg, 1/2986

“We are not interested in the authority-obeying, adapted mass. We are not interested in people who strive for a goal that aids only them. We want the dreamers, the people who think differently, who doubt themselves and others constantly. We want the ones who fail, fall, stand up, and try again. The ones who put puzzle pieces together in a way others can’t. The ones who see the large picture, who see the world and the humanity within, and not just their own small bubble of reality. We need the ones who can put anger, fear, and hate aside and analyse data independently of their own wants and needs. We want the excellent observers, the ones who are so sensitive to their surroundings, to the mass of normal people with all the ignorance they spread, that it destroys them. And of these few, we choose only the ones who never externalise their frustration. Never the ones who torture others — the weaker, the smaller, or animals in their care. We almost always choose the ones who take it out on themselves.”
― Annelie Wendeberg, Cut

“Before the times of change, still is it so: By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers; as by proof, we see The waters swell before a boisterous storm. William Shakespeare (Richard III)”
― Annelie Wendeberg, 1/2986

“Come.’ He nods to the globe. The door slides back into its frame. ‘We are here.’ He points to where the Alps slide into the lowlands. As if I don’t know where we are. I’m not brain-amputated, I’m just…ignorant. As are most of the people living in small villages, tending to their cabbages and goats while having no clue about satellites, artilleries, the BSA, or the end of the world.”
― Annelie Wendeberg, 1/2986

“The flight is delayed by five hours. Snowstorm,’ she says. I hear myself producing a weak ‘Fl…’ Runner flicks his gaze toward me. He’s obviously enjoying this. ‘We are flying to Taiwan. You are pale.’ ‘Of course I’m pale!’ I bark. ‘The fastest I’d travelled before I met you was with a donkey cart!’ I”
― Annelie Wendeberg, 1/2986

“He pushes buttons on his SatPad, logs in, and speaks into the machine. ‘I give operating rights to…’ Then he holds it in my face. ‘Fuck you!’ ‘Operating rights to fuck you, please acknowledge,’ the machine squeaks. ‘Acknowledged,”
― Annelie Wendeberg, 1/2986

“Ah, hope. Can one have hope without doubting?”
― Annelie Wendeberg, 1/2986

“I know I’m not good with people. But I’m not sure if it’s because I don’t like them or why I don’t like them. The”
― Annelie Wendeberg, 1/2986

“The word “mole” feels furry on my tongue.”
― Annelie Wendeberg, 1/2986

“The seventh cholera pandemic started in the 1960s. It occurs in more than sixty countries, affecting more than 7 million people. From: “Oceans, Climate and Health: Cholera as a Model of Infectious Diseases in a Changing Environment,” lecture by Prof. Rita Colwell, former director of the United States National Science Foundation”
― Annelie Wendeberg, 1/2986

“The warming of the oceans will not only cause sea levels to rise, but will also raise groundwater tables. Imagine the dramatic input of faeces from flooded sewer systems into groundwater — our most important drinking water resource. In combination with elevated atmospheric and sea surface water temperatures, the spreading of disease will speed up. Add this to the warning of hydrologists: clean drinking water will soon be a very limited commodity.”
― Annelie Wendeberg, 1/2986

“It is abundantly clear that our planet is warming. But not only the warming itself will change our world as we know it. We are already seeing changing weather patterns with extreme weather and droughts. We are already in the middle of three pandemics: The HIV/Aids pandemic is slowly retreating, the seventh cholera pandemic that started in the 1960s is still not under control, and the tuberculosis pandemic infects roughly one third of the human population. The World Health Organization warns about the spreading of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria with 900,000 cases each year. Microbiologists warn about the spreading of antibiotics-resistance genes in a great number of pathogenic bacteria, and they expect us to reach a point when antibiotics are no longer effective. Think of Victorian London with diseases like syphilis, cholera, typhus — there were no antibiotics available back then and a lot of people died a gruesome death.  What has disease to do with climate”
― Annelie Wendeberg, 1/2986

“(B) Raised seawater levels and heavy rainfalls, causing an elevation of groundwater levels, which resulted in (C) flooding of at least 63% of all sewer lines worldwide and substantial fluxes of faecal matter into aquifers, rivers, and lakes, contaminating all major drinking water resources. (D) Frequent long-distance travelling of Western and Central Europeans, North Americans, Australians, and Asians by air, sea, and land, facilitating the spreading of virulence factors and antibiotic resistance genes, and later, significantly accelerating the spreading of disease. (E) Use of large amounts of antibiotics (in the range of hundreds of thousands of tonnes per year), both for the treatment of disease and for industrial meat production, leading to antibiotics contamination of soils, aquifers, rivers, and lakes, and thus triggering bacterial multidrug-resistance in a great variety of ecosystems. (F) Spontaneous acquisition of an extremely potent virulence factor in a multidrug-resistant strain of V. cholerae, and (G) prevalence of various multidrug-resistant strains of M. tuberculosis since the 21st century.”
― Annelie Wendeberg, 1/2986