Lucky’s Reviews > White Nights > Status Update

‘I was thinking about you,’ she said to me after a minute’s silence, ‘you’re so kind that I would have to be made of stone not to feel it. Do you know what just occurred to me? I was comparing the two of you. Why isn’t he – you? Why isn’t he like you? He’s not as good as you, even though I love him more than you.’

‘Do you know why I’m so happy?’ she said, ‘so happy to look at you? Why I love you so today?’

‘Well?’ I asked, and my heart began to tremble.

‘I love you because you didn’t fall in love with me. Why, someone else in your place would have started bothering me, pestering me, sighing, falling ill, but you’re such a dear!’

I need advice that is heartfelt and brotherly, as though you had loved me all your life!’

‘All right, Nastenka, all right!’ I cried out in delight, ‘and if I’d already loved you for twenty years, I still couldn’t have loved you more than I do right now!’

‘Now, stop trying to make me feel sorry for you!’ Nastenka said.

But you mustn't fall in love with me, I beg you!

“Don't be vexed; I am only laughing at your being your own enemy”

I don't know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.

I walked along singing, for when I am happy I am always humming to myself like every happy man who has no friend or acquaintance with whom to share his joy. Suddenly I had a most unexpected adventure.

I walked along singing, for when I am happy I am always humming to myself like every happy man who has no friend or acquaintance with whom

It was a wonderful night, the kind of night, dear reader, which is only possible when we are young.