Erik Zilnicki

“We are bad lie detectors in those situations when the person we’re judging is mismatched.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

“Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer :
I would also be alive." - Oliver.”
― Erich Segal, Oliver's Story

“The Geneva peace accords said that it recognized the nationality and fundamental rights of the Vietnamese people including their sovereignty, their territory and unity. Due to the Geneva Conference allowing the imperialist combined forces of the Franco-USA coalition, on the one hand to hold South Vietnam under the 17th parallel and allowing the National resistance by the People of Vietnam to hold the north on the other, it stopped the Vietnamese from completely liberating their country. (Vein, 2009)”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

“I have maybe a half-hour before the next surgery. Want to go and get a cup of coffee?”
What I want is to meander eight kilometres down the canals with you from Kirov to your Fifth Soviet door. I want to get on the tram with you, the bus with you, sit in the Italian Gardens with you. That is what I want. I will take the cup of coffee in your hospital cafeteria.”
― Paullina Simons, The Summer Garden