Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.

Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.

Is there anything more frightening than people?

Back then everyone was saying: "We're going to die, we're going to die. By the year 2000, there won't be any Belarussians left.

We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.

A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back.

May the Creator guide you in unfamiliar path.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Christ, I'm in a Doris Day movie

You're kind of numb after 50 shots to the head.

My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head.

I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.