“Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler.”

“The third computer technician I’d hired walked in wearing Ukrainian cool circa 1996 – carefully ironed jeans that came up past his navel and a brown leather jacket – and introduced himself with the easy smile of a man who still lived with his mother.”

“My job is to scream cockle-doodle-doo. Don't blame me if the sun doesn't rise.”

“Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?”

“I didn't know what to do, and as usual, when I didn't know what to do, I did nothing.”

“history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.”

“Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.”