Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

“Never have I been frightened by circumstances. A little warmth, a little bread, my little ones with me, and life begins, happiness…

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

“By now it was clear that her Droplet was gone. She’d been replaced by this enormous, ugly, clumsy thing with its big…

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

“There was nothing but pain in store for her, yet she cried with happiness and couldn’t stop.”

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

“Once, at the dacha, years ago,” she said, “we all decided to go mushroom picking, and our neighbor Vera—she was at least…

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

“To cheat fate, Victor signed a three-year contract at a big industrial site two thousand miles away. He reckoned that in three…

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

“It's no secret, of course, that souls sometimes die within a person and are replaced by others — especially with age.”

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

“On the night she died and they took her away, her husband collapsed, and in his sleep he heard her—she was there,…

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

“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…

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

“She keeps looking up, not meeting his eyes - the sign of a serious crush, by the way.”

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

“El que ha de fer un autor no és tendir a comunicar uns sentiments, sinó sentir que el posseeixen, sentir el desig…

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

“I never "toured" that courtyard again. We avoid places where we've endured pain, but the opposite is true, too. Extreme kindness can…

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

“THERE ONCE LIVED A GIRL WHO WAS KILLED, THEN BROUGHT back to life.”

— Ludmilla Petrushevskaya