Quotes by : Svetlana Alexievich

Instead of lullabies, my mother would sing us songs of the Revolution. Now she sings them to her grandchildren.....

Is there anything more frightening than people?

Why didn't we put Stalin on trial? I'll tell you why...In order to condemn Stalin, you'd have to condemn....

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

I remembered some lines from the papers: our nuclear stations are absolutely safe, we could build one....

Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the....

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

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

We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event....

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