Quotes by : Svetlana Alexievich

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

How were you taken prisoner?' The interrogator asked my father. 'The Finns pulled me out of a lake.'....

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

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....

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....