Parenting Quote by Irina Reyn

Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without…

— Ann Patchett

“Novalis and Dostoyevsky, awaited me just as do the mother, or the wife, the children, maids, dogs and cats in the case of more…

— Hermann Hesse

“Kelley becomes addicted to the novels of Danielle Steel. Now, there’s a woman who knows about life: dying billionaires who cut their obnoxious children…

— Elin Hilderbrand

“In Russia, meanwhile, dedicated young people kept trying to kill the tsar.”

— Ian Frazier

“She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.”

— John le Carré

“Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!'…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“dangers of her past. She cared about what he provided in an otherwise dangerous world. “Russia is a hard place,” she said quietly, “or…

— Danielle Steel

“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried…

— Haruki Murakami

“I will never go back. For the simple reason that all the Russia I need, after all, is with me--always with me. Her literature,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich New Yorker…

— Penelope Lively

“I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. Not that Dostoyevsky's characters don't generate phatos, but…

— Haruki Murakami