“— And what did he die of so young, Gretta? Consumption, was it? — I think he died for me, she answered. The Dead, James Joyce (via optimistsdaughter)
“I think that what has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it’s been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima. John Hersey (via theparisreview)