"Half-life" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Willows said. "Half-life forty-six point five days. Beta and gamma emitter. Converts to Thallium ...
— The Bramble Bush • Gordon Randall Garrett
... she was left lamenting in her indigence. There, it was a father who had been engulfed in the roost; or again, the illness of a mother had cast a blight for years upon this other household. Sometimes I have seen two old people, all their sons dead, living a kind of stupefied half-life, automatically moving about, poor and wretchedly clad, unable to understand anything except the welcome heat of the sun and the animal comfort of a little food. There are many sad things in this world: none is more sad than the sight of two old people outliving ...
— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes |
