Closed door Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“- How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose? - I spit on your head, Ivan Ivanovich! What…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, without love, without a goal, I roam like a shadow…

— Anton Chekhov

“I was in the air not twenty minutes,” Ivanov’s eyes tightened. “From that shithole in Ashgabat. The phone rings. I expected great things. But…

— Matt Fulton

“Ivanov’s breath smelled of vodka and sewers, sour and heavy, like something rotting, reminiscent of empty houses near swamps, nightfall at four in the…

— Roberto Bolaño

“Down, girls,” he spat at the dogs while knotting the sash of a bespoke silk kimono around his waist. “Go!” He pointed his bony…

— Matt Fulton

“Ivanov’s cold indifference was unshakable. He snapped the book shut. “Do you want to spend the rest of your life in that man’s shadow?…

— Matt Fulton

“I tell you that PFC Ivanov has made a number of allegations regarding the treatment of Red”

— Philip Kerr

Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause,…

— Anonymous

“His scream was more of a roar, pouring out of him in a great torrent. Screaming for his loss, venting his pain.”

— Phillip W. Simpson

“Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a thousand times…

— Anton Chekhov

Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm…

— Anton Chekhov

“In that instant, Gogolov feared death. He could feel himself falling through the dark void of space. He was flailing and terrified and utterly…

— Joel C Rosenberg