Panic in a Suitcase Quotes

“One thing a Soviet upbringing taught you was to pay attention.”
― Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase

“Reality was a bad choice of enemy — it had no need for disguise, didn't respect the rules, and hit below the belt.”
― Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase

“The power of the ocean wasn't questioned.”
― Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase

“Remember you have just one mother, said Marina. Better not rush her to the grave! Though Marina had grown up with such reminders from her own mother, she could never get the tone quite right herself.”
― Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase

“One thing a Soviet upbringing taught you was to pay attention. Not like these lax Americans who didn't even monitor their nickel-and-dime transactions at the grocery store. But what about the pennies - should you bother with those?”
― Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase

“His fellow countrymen hadn't ventured bravely into a new land, they'd borrowed a tiny nook at the very rear of someone else's crumbling estate to make a tidy replication of the messy, imperfect original they'd gone through so many hurdles to escape, imprisoning themselves in their own lack of imagination, forgetting that the original had come about organically and proceeded to evolve, already markedly different from their poor-quality photocopy.”
― Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase

“Misha didn't finish flossing his sculpted popcorn molars, though the upkeep of his teeth was the closest he had to a sacred rite.”
― Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase

“... he rushed to the calendar where he jotted everything from Mama's Birthday to Buy New Toothbrush so that each month became a solid ink-black block of accomplishment.”
― Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase

“... coastal peoples from across the globe knew when they were among their kind.”
― Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase

“Pasha’s talent was to shift dynamics until all sympathy was directed toward him. A steady current flowed his way. He aroused feelings without necessarily returning them and was permanently enclosed in an aura of exemption.”
― Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase

“You can’t tell a man that you were sure he died fifteen years back. Discovering”
― Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase

“But the trouble with cherry pits was their clotted bloodiness and that they carried the ugly secret of mouths. What”
― Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase