Disaster Quote by Marcel Theroux

“Every family's its own trip to China.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“And when my father would tell me I would say to him, ‘Get to that lake—get my mother there—don’t let it happen again, not…

— John Steinbeck

“It was laid out much like any other town—thoughtlessly, and in haste. Here is where the rich people lived, and here the workers. This…

— Daniel Wallace

“I looked at the terraced hills and noticed how the people had changed the earth, taming it into dizzying staircases of rice paddies; but…

— Peter Hessler

“It's pretty simple. When people got out of Africa and Asia and reached other parts of the world, all hell broke loose.”

— Paul Martin

“As I gazed at Mao’s face wearing what was intended as a benign expression but was in fact a smirk of self-satisfaction, I wondered…

— Nien Cheng

“He was surprised to discover that when rich people were starving they looked so much like the poor”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“He wondered what a visitor from the past would make of it. It used to be the poor who were thin and the rich…

— Kate Atkinson

“And like the missing chips in this china, pieces of my spirit were also gone, destroyed by people who claimed to love me.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

“They had traveled the world, to Korea, Thailand, Central America ... they knew each other better than most brothers did.”

— Mark Bowden

“Every pandemic in the history of the world has come from China.”

— Lisa See