Russian Novels Quotes

“When they returned to Filigree Street, Mori refused even to go upstairs. Instead he hid under a quilt in the parlour with Thaniel's never-read copy of Anna Karenina. The Russians, he said, knew how to write genuinely boring novels, and he would only stop being afraid when he was bored enough. They were all the more boring because he could remember reading the end in the recent future.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

“I knew that there were guys who made proclamations about Russian novels because they thought it made them more attractive.”
― Kirsten McDougall, She's a Killer