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Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) QUOTES

Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) QUOTES

1 " It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

2 " I wanted to come, and if I hadn’t, they would have been all alone, and nobody would have ever known how frightened and brave and irreplaceable they were. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

3 " None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

4 " Kivrin reached out for Dunworthy's hand and clasped it tightly in her own. "I knew you'd come," she said, and the net opened. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

5 " It’s strange. When I couldn’t find the drop and the plague came, you seemed so far away I would not ever be able to find you again. But I know now that you were here all along, and that nothing, not the Black Death nor seven hundred years, nor death nor things to come nor any other creature could ever separate me from your caring and concern. It was with me every minute. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

6 " Belki bizim zamanımızın sorunu da budur Bay Dunworthy. Kurucuları Maisry, piskoposun elçisi ve Sir Bloet ne de olsa. Roche gibi kalıp yardım etmeye çalışan bütün insanlar vebaya yakalanıp öldüler. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

7 " None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one’s never thought of does. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

8 " io sui ici en liu dami amo’ (‘I am here in place of a friend love’) "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

9 " She was afraid she’d have no hope at all of recognizing the drop without the wagon and boxes there. She would have to get Gawyn to show it to her, "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

10 " You can’t go back,” Gilchrist said. “Haven’t you heard? We’re under quarantine, thanks to Mr. Dunworthy’s carelessness. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

11 " Explain! Perhaps you’d like to explain it to me, too. I’m not used to having my civil liberties taken away like this. In America, nobody would dream of telling you where you can or can’t go.” And over thirty million Americans died during the Pandemic as a result of that sort of thinking, he thought. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

12 " Kneeling on St. Mary’s stone floor she had envisioned the candles and the cold, but not Lady Imeyne, waiting for Roche to make a mistake in the mass, not Eliwys or Gawyn or Rosemund. Not Father Roche, with his cutthroat’s face and worn-out hose.

She could never in a hundred years, in seven hundred and thirty-four years, have imagined Agnes, with her puppy and her naughty tantrums, and her infected knee. I’m glad I came, she thought. In spite of everything. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

13 " When I was nineteen—which was, oh, Lord, forty years ago, it doesn’t seem that long—my sister and I traveled all over Egypt,” she said. “It was during the Pandemic. Quarantines were being slapped on all about us, and the Israelis were shooting Americans on sight, but we didn’t care. I don’t think it even occurred to us that we might be in danger, that we might catch it or be mistaken for Americans. We wanted to see the Pyramids. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

14 " They’re saying it’s some sort of biological weapon,” Colin said. “They’re saying it escaped from a laboratory. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

15 " He was almost too tired to do that, though he knew he would regret it if he went to bed in his clothes. That was the province of the young and nonarthritic. Colin would wake refreshed in spite of digging buttons and constricting sleeves. Kivrin could wrap up in her too-thin white cloak and rest her head on a tree stump none the worse for wear, but if he so much as omitted a pillow or left his shirt on, he would wake stiff and cramped. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

16 " Should I ration the lavatory paper, do you think, sir,’ Finch said, ‘or put up notices asking everyone to conserve? "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

17 " Grandmother. Agnes had not said anything like “grandmother.” The word hadn’t even existed until the eighteenth century, "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

18 " I’m not used to having my civil liberties taken away like this. In America, nobody would dream of telling you where you can or can’t go.” And over thirty million Americans died during the Pandemic as a result of that sort of thinking, he thought. “I "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

19 " Keep careful track of any contacts you do have. We’re still uncertain of the mode of transmission, but most myxoviruses spread by droplet and direct contact. Wash your hands with soap and water frequently. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

20 " Probability was projecting an 85 percent morbidity rate with 32 percent mortality even with antimicrobials and T-cell enhancement, and that was without adding in the supply shortages and so many of the staff being down. As it was, we had nearly nineteen percent mortality and a good number of the cases are still critical. "

― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)