The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep Quotes

“You're hopeful one moment and then disappointed the next. You think everything's going well and then there's some change and you realize it wasn't going well at all. You realize it was all going wrong and that you'd been lied to. So then you start all over again, believing it's all going to be right this time. You keep on and on, hoping.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“The state looks after us, like p-parents, We're special. We are. Maybe there are some things they don't tell us, but it's for our own good.'
'That's right. The less you know, the sounder you sleep.'
'I'm not so sure, girls. I think I'd sleep a lot sounder if I knew the truth.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“Fear. Fear is only in your head. Only? The head is an important place.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“I need a drink. Vodka is the only thing that makes everything go away. Vodka is that delightful, black, ink-out paint that stops everything hurting. Vodka gives me black, dreamless sleep. Like death...like beautiful suicide.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“You know what they say: life's a journey, not a destination. We can all change, however old we are. We all have to work at making life as good as we can make it every step of the way.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“I want to get drunk too...It's shameful, but I do. When I drink I forget.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“When Masha's not talking, I go into this other world I have, of living in the village with Slava. I'm not Together with Masha there, and Slava and me are both Healthy. He works as an accountant and I'm a science teacher in the primary school. I can picture it all in my head: the stove, the tables and chairs, the rug on the wall, the books we have and the vegetable plot in the garden. I have all these different situations I think up and I go through the conversations, word by word, in my head. It's my other world. My real world.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“Your body can be imprisoned, my dear...but not your mind.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“If I had a mother who hadn't thought I was a monster and left me to die, like ours did, I'd help her through every bog and burrow. Not stick her in here to suffocate in her old age.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“Little children bring headaches, and big ones bring heartaches.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“Winners see a problem and fix it - losers only see the problem.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“Olessya always used to say that happiness lies in three things: having someone to love, something to do ad something to hope for.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“Life is what you make it. We've just got to keep trying until we find the right place and the right people. To never give up trying. Never.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“All I can feel is this dull, aching despair that I'm still alive.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“It's as if I'm so sad I couldn't get any sadder. I'm just looking forward to stopping it all by dying. I'm looking forward to feeling nothing, ever again.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“She smells strongly of sweet cherries. She said Baba Kira made her own cherry liqueur infusion...is she drunk? She can't be. Nice, educated, intelligent women don't get drunk.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“That's what happens. Some people just like us, and some people just don't. Masha says it's their problem, not ours.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“I wish the other kids were nicer to her, but they don't like her chortik. That's what Mummy used to call the Little Devil that rises up inside her when she's angry and takes her over. It's when her eyes go black as if there really is the shadow of a devil passing inside her head. It scares me.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“I remember Aunty Nadya telling me once to remember that if there's just one person who loves you for who you are, it doesn't matter if a hundred thousand people hate you for what you look like.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep

“I wonder if it's better never to have known your mother, like us, and to imagine her, or to have known her, like Olessya and Little Lyuda, and been rejected. I can't quite decide.”
― Juliet Butler, The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep