Quotes by : Svetlana Alexievich

I'm afraid of freedom, it feels like some drunk guy could show up and burn my dacha at any moment.

Is there anything more frightening than people?

When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time

It's certainly true that Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off,....

Many greeted the truth as an enemy. And freedom as well.

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

The mysterious Russian soul... Everyone wants to understand it. They read Dostoevsky: what's behind that....

At that time my notions of nuclear power were utterly idyllic. At school and at the university we'd been....

Pretty soon, I'll be decomposing into phosphorous, calcium, and so on. Who else will you find to tell....

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