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“Я устал от этого проклятого русского выбора: между насилием и насилием. Здесь даже дети только и могут, что выбирать себе палачей.”
― Miki Langelo, Дни нашей жизни

“Господи, как скучно все это, вот так, без любви, и утро скучное, и рассвет серенький, как неинтересно все...”
― Эдуард Лимонов, Это я – Эдичка

“— Пожалуйста, не мучай так себя, можно реально умереть. И не доживешь до прекрасной России будущего.”
― Сергей Давыдов, Спрингфилд

“— Я ебал вас всех, ебаные в рот суки! — говорю я и вытираю слезы кулаком. Может быть, я адресую эти слова билдингам вокруг. Я не знаю.
— Я ебал вас всех, ебаные в рот суки! Идите вы все на хуй! — шепчу я.”
― Эдуард Лимонов, Это я – Эдичка

“The big moment came. I sat the typewriter down on the desk and I put a piece of paper in there and I hit the keys. The typewriter still worked. And there was plenty of room for an ashtray, the radio and the bottle. Don’t let anybody tell you different. Life begins at 65.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hollywood

“Что ж ты, мир — еб твою мать! Ну, я терплю-терплю, но когда-то это мне надоест. Раз нет места мне и многим другим, то на хуй такая цивилизация нужна?!”
― Эдуард Лимонов, Это я – Эдичка

“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Things matter to me more than they do to normal people, I thought. I need to relax and let things go. I should experiment with drugs.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“To Marx, it seemed foolish not to love as many things as you could.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Friendship,” Marx said, “is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“There's no game without the NPCs. There's just some bullshit hero, wandering around with no one to talk to and nothing to do.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“You are moving out of the realm of fantasy "when I grow up" and adjusting to the reality that you're there; it's happening”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“The perfect man is kind, funny and generous. He bends down to say hello to dogs and puts up shelves.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Yes, people age horribly. They suffer strokes. Their bodies and brains fall apart. But the male ego? Firmly intact until the bitter end.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“The contents of supermarket baskets are surely evidence that none of us are coping with adulthood all that well.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they’re also painfully unoriginal.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“She asked me if I hated men, or if I liked men and hated that I liked them so much.”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“Life is a bit more difficult for women. More difficult than it is for us, I mean. And you don't need to ask them to explain why or understand it all. You just need to be nice to them.”
― Dolly Alderton, Good Material

“Человек - это промежуточное звено эволюции, необходимое для создания венца творения пpиpоды - рюмки коньяка и дольки лимона.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу

“Women took care of men and let them pretend we didn’t.”
― Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Полежите еще, вам полезно, вы толстый».”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Защита Лужина (Вечные книги)

“«Не выходи ты за него замуж, — изменившись в лице, проговорила мать, — Не выходи. Умоляю тебя. Ну, хочешь, — я бухнусь перед тобой на колени...» И, опираясь одной рукой о кресло, она стала с трудом сгибать ногу, медленно опуская свое большое, слегка похрустывавшее тело. «Пол продавишь», — сказала дочь и, захватив книги, вышла из комнаты.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Защита Лужина (Вечные книги)

“You had every intention of being depressed forever, but as it turns out, there's work to be done, meals to eat, movies to see, errands to run. You meant to be in ruins permanently, your misery a monument, a gash across the cold hard earth, but honestly, who has the time for that? Instead, you survived - apparently, you both did - and things are shockingly okay.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories