Just Send Me Word Quotes

“Sveta had much less to say, but she sat with Lev and held his hand, and when I asked her what had made her fall in love with him, she replied, ‘I knew he was my future. When he was not there, I would look for him, and he would always appear by my side. That is love.’

Sveta”
― Orlando Figes, Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

“I understood that the most terrible thing in life is complete hopelessness... To cross out all the 'maybes' and give up the fight when you still have strength for it is the most terrible form of suicide. It's almost unbearable to watch it happening in others. Unjustified hope - salvation for the weak in spirit and intellect - irritates me. But the loss of hope is the paralysis, even the death, of the soul. Sveta, let us hope, while we still have strength to hope.”
― Orlando Figes, Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

“I have always had this fear, the fear that love is not
enough. One must be able to love yet also to live together
and to live in this world, which will probably always remain
cruel.”
― Orlando Figes, Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

“In the end, you and I are happier than many – happier
than those who do not know love at all and than those who
do not know how to find it.”
― Orlando Figes, Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag