“To cheat fate, Victor signed a three-year contract at a big industrial site two thousand miles away. He reckoned that in three years they’d all forget about him, including Alla, who’d find herself a husband. It was like a temporary… — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
“Never have I been frightened by circumstances. A little warmth, a little bread, my little ones with me, and life begins, happiness begins.” — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
“By now it was clear that her Droplet was gone. She’d been replaced by this enormous, ugly, clumsy thing with its big head and… — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
“There was nothing but pain in store for her, yet she cried with happiness and couldn’t stop.” — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
“Once, at the dacha, years ago,” she said, “we all decided to go mushroom picking, and our neighbor Vera—she was at least eighty at… — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
“To cheat fate, Victor signed a three-year contract at a big industrial site two thousand miles away. He reckoned that in three years they’d… — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
“It's no secret, of course, that souls sometimes die within a person and are replaced by others — especially with age.” — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
“On the night she died and they took her away, her husband collapsed, and in his sleep he heard her—she was there, and she… — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
“Old Milgrom pauses to console the girl and tells her she’s not the only one who’s clumsy, that she herself couldn’t do anything when… — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
“She keeps looking up, not meeting his eyes - the sign of a serious crush, by the way.” — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
“El que ha de fer un autor no és tendir a comunicar uns sentiments, sinó sentir que el posseeixen, sentir el desig de desfer-se’n,… — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
“I never "toured" that courtyard again. We avoid places where we've endured pain, but the opposite is true, too. Extreme kindness can be repaid… — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
“THERE ONCE LIVED A GIRL WHO WAS KILLED, THEN BROUGHT back to life.” — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image
