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Wistful.

“For all the varied concerns attendant to the raising of a child - over schoolwork, dress, and manners - in the end, a parent’s responsibility could not be more simple: To bring a child safely into adulthood so that she could have a chance to experience a life of purpose and, God willing, contentment.@

“‘All I can say is that Anna Karenina would never have put you under a bureau just because you happened to be as thick as Montaigne.’”

Demitasse

“‘The future of Russian poetry is the haiku!’”

If this ends sadly someone is going to pay.

“...for it is only our heartbreak that finally refutes all that is ephemeral in love.”
Y’all. He needs to stop right now.

“And suddenly it struck me that walking the length of Nevsky Prospekt was like walking the length of Russian literature.” Shut. Up.

Bees <3

Which now?

“‘That it is a monument to the privilege of the nobility, the effeteness is the intelligentsia, and the predatory pricing of speculators.’”
It’s so sad and so funny simultaneously

It’s just so sweet. So tender. Without being at all maudlin.

Bow before the haiku.

Well. Book one ended in dramatic fashion, didn’t it?

The Scylla and Charybdis of the menu...

“‘The only difference between everybody and nobody is all the shoes.’”

This little story is going to make me tearful.

I had so much work today. And all I could think was “I should be reading.”

Hi Anna!

To every person I know who has read this book and not extolled its virtues to me from every rooftop - your day is coming.
To Jill - thank you and well done.

Moustaches. And dueling. He’s so charming.

“‘A woman is always involved,’ she said.”

I am wildly in love

He is perfection. His mustache. His attitude. His sense of humor.

Fuhhhhhhhhhkkkkkkk me

“‘A king fortifies himself with a castle,’ observed the Count, ’a gentleman with a desk.’”

It’s already brilliant.

It’s not terrible. It’s just not good.

This plot line is awful

I don’t hate it