He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.
They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.
I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
It's not objective. It's subjective.β Katya hooks her bra behind her back. βIt's just what you think, not the truth.
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.
