“Is there anything more frightening than people?”

“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.”

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

“At that time my notions of nuclear power were utterly idyllic. At school and at the university we'd been taught that this was a magical factory that made "energy out of nothing," where people in wh...”

“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.”

“It's certainly true that Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a deep-seated indiff...”

“Is there anything more frightening than people?”

“I make my way back whistling. Gerry nods towards Mrs Brady who is standing beside the trolleys.Morning, Mrs Brady, I say cheerfully.I push her provisions out to the car.Things are something terribl...”

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