Raskolnikov realised in that moment that it was no longer…

“The thing she realised in that moment, that fraction of waiting, was lost. Nothing could bring the thing back, no words could make the…

— H.D

“Issie realised at that moment how well they understood each other, her and Alfie, even though their lives were so different”

— Stacy Gregg

It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible

— Sallust

“The iPhone 2 led to the 3, but I didn’t get the 4 or 5 because I’m holding out for the 7, which, I’ve…

— David Sedaris

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

— Anonymous

A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us…

— Boris Pasternak

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

— Anonymous

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant…

— Michael Cunningham

Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such naive readers…

— Cynthia Ozick

“Raskolnikov had been listening intently, but with a sense of unhealthy discomfort.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I love to hear singing to a street organ,” said Raskolnikov, and his manner seemed strangely out of keeping with the subject—“I like it…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Raskolnikov was not used to crowds, and, as we said before, he avoided society of every sort, more especially of late. But now all…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

— Philip Roth