Angelika Regossi > Quotes

“Marriage was explained to me as a bargain—be good, be quiet, be grateful. Then I saw what it would cost my face.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“Some people are like weeds — you must pull them out of the garden of your life to let yourself grow.”
― Angelika Regossi

“I was still sitting in childhood when the darkness spoke to me.”
― Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story

“I walked away from the world and into the monastery, believing that where prayer begins, lies finally lose their voice.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“Life carried me on its waves—from love into hate, and from hate into a love painfully reborn.”
― Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story

“Empires rename places; kitchens remember who lived there.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“Some languages shape conversations. Others shape history.”
― Angelika Regossi, In English as in Russian: 1000 words with explanations - ПО-АНГЛИЙСКИ КАК ПО-РУССКИ: 1000 слов с пояснениями

“It’s never too late to begin something new. Life keeps moving—why not follow what you truly like?”
― Angelika Regossi

“I climbed toward God, leaving behind the noise of the world, seeking the silence of eternity.”
― Angelika Regossi

“You promised me to think big! Anfisa, if you think big, you will become big - you will be more than just a wife to a man.”
― Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story

“Язык учат не только глазами. Его вспоминают ушами.”
― Angelika Regossi, In English as in Russian: 1000 words with explanations - ПО-АНГЛИЙСКИ КАК ПО-РУССКИ: 1000 слов с пояснениями

“I learned what it meant to be a Jew the day I was told it would be easier if I wasn’t.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“История разберётся с империями. Тысяча слов поможет разобраться с людьми.”
― Angelika Regossi, In English as in Russian: 1000 words with explanations - ПО-АНГЛИЙСКИ КАК ПО-РУССКИ: 1000 слов с пояснениями

“Let history handle empires. Learn a thousand words and handle the conversation.”
― Angelika Regossi, In English as in Russian: 1000 words with explanations - ПО-АНГЛИЙСКИ КАК ПО-РУССКИ: 1000 слов с пояснениями

“Soviet Russia cannot survive without Baku’s oil.’ ‘Is it possible? Can you drain the Caspian Sea?’ — Stalin’s orders were never questions.”
― Angelika Regossi authir of "Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the Dissolved Communist Empire”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“Boredom was mandatory; smoking was optional.”
— Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food”
― Angelika Regossi

“For people like you, we have psychiatric hospitals.”
“But I am not ill.”
“No problem, we shall find a diagnosis for you,” answered the KGB officer to the dissident.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“Where everything is monitored, love stops being a feeling and becomes a discipline.”
― Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story

“When power runs out of arguments, it finishes justice quietly, from behind.”
― Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story

“Authoritarianism reaches further than borders—it reaches into our bedrooms.”
― Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story

“When everything is for sale, even an era gets renamed.”
— Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“Language remembers where we come from, even when we try to forget.”
― Angelika Regossi, Magyarul mint Oroszul: 1000 szó magyarázattal - ПО–ВЕНГЕРСКИ КАК ПО–РУССКИ: 1000 с л о в с пояснениями

“When everything east of Europe was called ‘Russia,’ entire cultures disappeared behind a single word.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“Idézet:

"És imbolyogtam az élet hullámain:
szerelemből gyűlöletbe, gyűlöletből erőltetett szerelembe."


Эпиграф:

"И качалась я на волнах жизни:
от любви к ненависти, от ненависти к вымученной любви.”
― Angelika Regossi, Magyarul mint Oroszul: 1000 szó magyarázattal - ПО–ВЕНГЕРСКИ КАК ПО–РУССКИ: 1000 с л о в с пояснениями

“It’s never too late to begin something new. Life keeps moving—why not follow what you truly like?
— Angelika Regossi, author of Love in Communism. A Young Woman's Adult Story”
― Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story

“Иногда новый язык начинается с тысячи простых слов — и с одного свободного утра.”
― Angelika Regossi, In English as in Russian: 1000 words with explanations - ПО-АНГЛИЙСКИ КАК ПО-РУССКИ: 1000 слов с пояснениями

“Soviet identity was a paradox: Muslim by tradition, atheist by obligation.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“I knew about nuclear war without ever choosing to learn it.”
― Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story

“Be kind, darling. Or else your Christmas surprise will be socks—warm, woolly revenge.”
— Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman’s Adult Story”
― Angelika Regossi

“I was still a child, but the looks of the men told me otherwise. In that moment, clothes became a threshold, and childhood slipped away without asking.”
― Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story