Svetlana Alexievich. Chernobyl prayer (№ 407144)

I dreamed! I regretted that I was not born in the seventeenth or forty-first ... And now I think differently: I do not want to live in history, in historical time. My little life is immediately defenseless. Great events trample her down without noticing. Without stopping ... (Thinks.) After us only history will remain ... Chernobyl will remain ... Where is my life? My love?