There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself Quotes

“There was nothing but pain in store for her, yet she cried with happiness and couldn’t stop.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

“Once, at the dacha, years ago,” she said, “we all decided to go mushroom picking, and our neighbor Vera—she was at least eighty at the time—dashed over to the mirror and started painting her lips. My mother said to her, ‘Aunt Vera, we are going to the woods; who’s the lipstick for?’ And Vera replied—I’ll never forget it—‘Who knows? Maybe that’s where it will happen!”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

“She keeps looking up, not meeting his eyes - the sign of a serious crush, by the way.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

“To cheat fate, Victor signed a three-year contract at a big industrial site two thousand miles away. He reckoned that in three years they’d all forget about him, including Alla, who’d find herself a husband. It was like a temporary suicide, he thought, a thing that everyone desires at some point—to step out for a while, then come back to see what happened.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

“Old Milgrom pauses to console the girl and tells her she’s not the only one who’s clumsy, that she herself couldn’t do anything when she was young—boil an egg or hem a diaper—and then she learned. Life taught her.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

“Love likes secrecy and playfulness; it flees too much devotion and heavy emotional debt.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

“En el seu cas, tot quedava clar, el promès era transparent, ximple i gens subtil, i a ella l'esperava un destí tèrbol, però tenia els ulls plens de llàgrimes de felicitat.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

“El que ha de fer un autor no és tendir a comunicar uns sentiments, sinó sentir que el posseeixen, sentir el desig de desfer-se’n, escriure i alliberar-se’n. Aleshores, potser les idees i els sentiments se sedimentaran en el text, i tornaran a sorgir quan uns altres ulls comprensius s’aferrin a les mateixes línies.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories