Why Quotes

“There's a certain term - existential loneliness- which describes the loneliness that you can feel no matter how many people you are with, no matter how close you are to them or how much they love you; when you understand that you are completely alone in this world.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“I needed to know that he was suffering without me.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“They say that when people stop loving each other, they become indifferent. Is that what we were - indifferent?”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“In general, Mark was right; love was a business predestined for failure. I should have poked my head out of the sand in time and asked whether my husband loved me or not.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“A mother's heart has the gift of foresight.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“Compared with infinity, nothing has any meaning.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“Big purse - big problems.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“It's hard for a woman to respect a man who refuses to take any action to solve his problems.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“Sometimes I think that people are like stars or planets in the sky. Near each other, but unable to reach out and touch one another, even though they're sharing the same orbit. Spinning through the darkness so close together, they only see the outlines of unfamiliar figures. And they strain with all their might to reach each other, but gravity forces them into circle after circle of pointless motion in empty space.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“we didn't have anything to talk about anymore except money.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“When I got home, I looked around and thought that it was about time for a good cry. A really serious one.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“Something always prevents married women from getting a good night's sleep.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“There are no 'shoulds' and 'ought to haves' in life.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“What was this? Was I jealous? Can you be jealous with of someone's relationship with a man you hate?”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“I was going to be sick soon. I had certainly done some damage to the body while trying to numb the heart.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“I believe in the unity of souls because I've seen it. I remember how my grandfather and grandmother lived together. But as for the rest, I know perfectly well how it will go, and how it will end.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“Andrei wasn't just ideal - he was unique. I didn't need the rest of the world when I had him; you could disappear into him and forget who you were.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“Slamming the door as hard as you could was practically a family tradition in our house.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“Sometimes it seems to me that everything I have is chronic. My whole life is a chronic condition.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why

“Being tired is a luxury that a working woman can't afford, which is why I did my best to keep it together, to maintain an impossible juggling act: work, shopping, phone calls - endless, endless phone calls.”
― Tatiana Vedenska, Why