The Beauties Quotes

“He read like a man afloat on the sea, surrounded by the wreckage of his ship, trying to save his life by desperately clutching first to one fragment and then another.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Beauties

“Outside the windows there was a grey sky and rain-sodden trees; in weather like that, there was nowhere to go and nothing to do but tell stories and listen to them.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Beauties: Essential Stories