Eastbound Quotes

“These guys come from Moscow and don’t know where they’re going

With a tightness in her throat Helene holds onto Aliocha who puffs up his chest—they hold each other side by side, posing together, it’s the provodnitsa who photographs them before embracing them together, and on the screen, they look like each other, they have the same faces.”
― Maylis de Kerangal, Eastbound

“Come, let’s take a photo. With a tightness in her throat Hélène holds onto Aliocha who puffs up his chest—they hold each other side by side, posing together, it’s the provodnitsa who photographs them before embracing them together, and on the screen, they look like each other, they have the same faces.”
― Maylis de Kerangal, Eastbound

“They don’t see him right away, he’s not standing behind the door anymore, he’s huddled on the ground like a thing the tremors of terror have emptied of substance, a hidden thing, that has brutalized a woman, terrorized a child, a thing that was ready to kill so it wouldn’t be caught—”
― Maylis de Kerangal, Eastbound

“No woman had ever come to save him, not even the one who walked through the schoolyard in his dreams, fatal and serene, long red wool coat, black leather gloves, gray fur chapka, blonde hair beneath: a planet unto herself. No, especially not her. —”
― Maylis de Kerangal, Eastbound

“…they drink vodka because there’s nothing else to do.”
― Maylis de Kerangal, Eastbound