Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“It’s funny, but when I talk about this business of my father and Valentina with my women friends, they’re absolutely appalled. They see a vulnerable old man who’s being exploited. Yet all the men I talk to—without any exception, Mike” (I wag my finger) “they respond with these wry knowing smiles, these little admiring chuckles. Oh, what a lad he… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share
“There is no solution. I can see no possibility of peace in my lifetime. So long as they continue with their attacks, we will… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“Use the technology which the engineer as developed, but use it with a humble and questioning spirit. Never allow technology to be your master,… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“Mother, who had never missed a chance to fulminate against the evils of our time including privatisation, Jeremy Clarkson, and pay-day loans.” — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“Da, sve otkako je čovjek prvi put digao glavu iznad ulaza u špilju da pogleda zvijezde na nebu i pomislio kako bi bilo lijepo… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families. — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“Only the image of my father is unclear, as if something obscure but vital has been blotted out, and only the raging surface is… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“Pappa, just stop and think for a minute. Is this really what you want?” “Hmm. What I want?” (he pronounces it ‘vat I vant’).… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“In the early days of space travel, one interesting problem emerged from experiments with weightlessness. Americans found that ... normal ink pen would not… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down. — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“With a feeling of despondency so intense that it was almost pleasurable, he got out his guitar. So this was to be his condition… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
