Natalia Kandybin

“In this huge world there are some beautiful, happy families where parents and children maintain a close, warm relationship—a situation about as frequent as hat tricks in soccer. I have no confidence at all that I could be one of these rare happy parents, and can’t see Tokai doing it either.”
― Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

“We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

“I understood for the first time that I didn't understand what I thought I understood”
― Seiji Ozawa, Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa