“Apart from sweets, Valya was interested in very little. Though once, while drawing moustaches on some elderly aunts in a photograph album, she asked in passing, “So where is Jesus Christ now?” — Teffi Copy Share Image
“And then—the languid hands dropped the uncut book. War, revolution, an absurd marriage, being chosen as the “dictator of his home town,” putting his… — Teffi Copy Share Image
“But do you realize that there is a dreadful force that only saints and crazed fanatics can defeat? This force closes all these doors;… — Teffi Copy Share Image
“It's sad to wander about the graveyard of my tired memory, where all hurts have been forgiven, where every sin has been more than… — Teffi Copy Share Image
“It was enough to make you think fondly of those early days, of that “springtime” of the revolution when your teeth would be chattering… — Teffi Copy Share Image
“I was afraid of maddened faces, of lanterns being shone in my eyes, of blind mindless rage. I was afraid of cold, of hunger,… — Teffi Copy Share Image
“I hurried off, clacking my heels on the pavement, so I could hear that I had returned to my ordinary everyday life.” — Teffi Copy Share Image
“Apart from sweets, Valya was interested in very little. Though once, while drawing moustaches on some elderly aunts in a photograph album, she asked… — Teffi Copy Share Image
