Boris Gregoric

“There was something eternal, something purely Muscovite about Zuyev. It never faded or disappeared, that amazing combination of unarrogant kindness, unaffected goodwill and merry seriousness.”
― Vasily Belov, The Best Is Yet to Come

“I do not consider myself to be an artist at all. As you know, I have never said I was an artist, since I think that word has to be reserved for certain special people and events of which – one has to admit – there have been fewer and fewer in recent decades. There are fewer and fewer people worthy of the name. That is also why I do not use the word of myself.”
― Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Kieslowski: Interviews

“Sometimes when you read, it's like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It's as if they say everything you have tried to say; or tried to do; or everything you are. As a rule, what you are is one simmering, endless longing. And that was how this sentence struck Anna Bae's consciousness, like a quivering arrow of truth.”
― Gunnhild Øyehaug, Knots: Stories

“The daylight is burning, and I've yet the spuds to spray.”
― Keegan Claire