Alexandra

“Trust is good, control is better.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“Justice has to be motionless or else the scales will waver that and there is no possibility of a correct judgement”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“What was in our stars
That destined us for sorrow?”
― Anna Akhmatova

“Listen as the fox slowly and deftly unbinds his whole pack of tricks—his flattery and fine words, his warm and sugary russet charm, his bold-faced blandishments. He has brought forth a spool of raw lies and spun them into a glittering web of truth to trap them all. Every last one of them.”
― Anne Louise Avery, Reynard the Fox