“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 the time—dashed over to the mirror and started painting her lips. My mother said to her,… — 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 She’d been replaced by this enormous, ugly, clumsy thing with its big head and… — Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Copy Share Image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
