Life Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

“I want you to read ‘God Sees the Truth, but Waits,’ ” said Mother. “Tolstoy writes about a man, wrongly accused of a murder,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Do Boga vysoko, do Tsarya daleko, God is high up, and the tsar is far away,” she whispered. Anything can happen, and there’s no…

— Jason Matthews

“Is there a living man in the country?" cried the Russian hero. I cry the same, though I am not a hero, and no…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven,…

— james salter

“God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not…

— Alexander Pushkin

“So long, Bird Girl,' he whispered, changing the emphasis to stress the first word. 'So long,' I agreed, because a life without him would…

— Annabel Pitcher

“Once, at the peak of our shouting, Bird took a deep breath. At the top of his lungs, he shrieked: “I! HAVE NOT! BEEN!…

— Nicole Krauss

“This is a badly broken world, full of wars and cruelty and senseless tragedy. Every human being who inhabits it is served his or…

— Stephen King

“Each life unfulfilled, you see,       It hangs still, patchy and scrappy;     We have not sighed deep, laughed free,       Starved, feasted, despaired—been…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“To understand Russia today, you must understand the trauma of the nineties. Everything we had, everything we had been told, was swept away. We…

— Daniel Silva

“So small a spirit, to lodge such sorrows as mankind has brought you. Live … live.… Wait for me, new, frightened soul. And though…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you. At first there were the Russians; then there were all…

— Ernest Hemingway