Maxim Chernykh

“Even on the sad days, when you have to process young children or those leaving lovers behind, you come to realise that every death is significant, even when every life appears not to be.”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

“She took him by the ears and blew into his nostrils to give him a start, then looked into his eyes to see what she had surprised there.”
― Charles Portis, Gringos

“In all this madness, there is only one beast whose existence you doubt. And you are not thinking of God, also known as Whoever. You are thinking of that most impossible of all mythical creatures: the Honest Politician.”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

“Have you ever noticed,” Rosalie asks, “that the coloreds are always singing of the coming glory and the Irish are always singing of the glory lost?”
― Karen Joy Fowler, Booth