Quotes from Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

I tried to upload a picture of the cover, but blogspot is being difficult -_- . I'll try again later, but for now, here are the quotes:


"He plunged after her, trying to keep clear of the deadly umbrellas and to determine what carol was being slaughtered now. It sounded like a cross between a call to arms and a dirge, but it was most probably 'Jingle Bells'."

"'Spaegun yovor tongawn glais?' she said, and it might be 'Good morning' or 'Are you feeling better?' or 'We're burning you at dawn'."

"She was all alone, and the fire was going out, and nobody knew where she was except for the rat that was going to kill half of Europe."

"It's the light, she thought. Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity."

"Some people recovered spontaneously and some were saved by prayers. Not everyone died who was infected. The death rate for the pneumonic plague was only ninety percent."