There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby Quotes

“It's no secret, of course, that souls sometimes die within a person and are replaced by others — especially with age.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

“It was in a dream, though, that it happened, and dreams don’t count.”
― Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

“On the night she died and they took her away, her husband collapsed, and in his sleep he heard her—she was there, and she lay her head down on the pillow next to him and said, “My love.” And after that he slept happily, and at the funeral he was calm and dignified, though he’d lost a great deal of weight, and was honest and upright, and at the wake, when everyone had gathered at his apartment, he told them all that she had come to him and called him “My love.” And everyone froze, because they knew what he said was true—and the photograph no longer hung over his desk.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

“Because by now she’d begun to forget that inside of her were two souls, and these souls kept quiet and cried without tears in the dark prison of her powerful body.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

“hoping not to meet anyone at all anymore, in this kingdom of the dead, and hoping never to learn just how much they grieved in that other kingdom, of the living.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

“certain feelings of Platonic Friendship and Sympathy, which are much more dangerous than our plain human filth, in and out, in and out, and it’s over.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

“THERE ONCE LIVED A GIRL WHO WAS KILLED, THEN BROUGHT back to life.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

“There once lived a girl who was killed,”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

“He removed a chair blocking the way and entered a room filled with broken glass, rubbish, excrement, pages torn out of books, strewn bottles, and headless mice. A little girl with a bright-red bald scalp, just like the young man’s, only redder, lay on the bed. She stared at the young man, and the cat sat beside her on her pillow, also staring attentively at him, with big, round eyes.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

“By now it was clear that her Droplet was gone. She’d been replaced by this enormous, ugly, clumsy thing with its big head and skinny arms—a real baby, and not at all hers. The”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales