Petrakova Quotes & Sayings

I know you're on my side," an immunologist once remarked to me as we discussed the politics of vaccination. I did not agree with him, but only because I was uncomfortable with both sides, as I had seen them delineated. The debate over vaccination tends to be described with what the philosopher of science Donna Haraway would call "troubling dualisms." These dualisms pit science against nature, public against private, truth against imagination, self against other, thought against emotion, and man against woman. — Eula Biss

In these silent sunless galleries he'd come to feel that another went before him and each glade he entered seemed just quit by a figure who'd been sitting there and risen and gone on. Some doublegoer, some othersuttree eluded him in these woods and he feared that should that figure fail to rise and steal away and were he therefore to come to himself in this obscure wood he'd neither be mended nor made whole but rather set mindless to dodder drooling with his ghosty clone from sun to sun across a hostile hemisphere forever. — Cormac McCarthy

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live. — Jules Renard

Sometimes her cheeks hurt from laughing when he finally held her car door open for her in the evening. He was there every day and every night. For her. — Debra Anastasia

I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women ... What was the war on women? — Foster Friess

People always stay the age that they died at. My big brother died of leukemia when I was six. He was eight. Now when I think of him, he's always eight, and he's still my big brother. He never changes, and the part of me that remembers him never changes. — Christopher Moore

The Library is a wilderness of books. — Henry David Thoreau

And cursed be the illusion for mortals, love, and law: love is a lying fiction, and only hate is true. — Felix Dahn