Erika

“As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.”
― Marina Lewycka, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

“…for only someone who has lived in a totalitarian state can appreciate the true character of paranoia. In 1937, when my father returned to Kiev from Luhansk, the whole country was bathed in a miasma of paranoia.
It seeped everywhere, into the most intimate crevices of people's lives: it soured the relationship between friends and colleagues, between teachers and students, between parents and children, husbands and wives. Enemies were everywhere. If you didn't like the way someone has sold you a piglet, or looked at your girlfriend, or asked for money you owned, or given you a low mark in an exam, a quick word to the NKVD would sort them out...”
― Marina Lewycka, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

“An old friend of mine, a journalist, once said that paradise on earth was to work all day alone in anticipation of an evening in interesting company.”
― Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me

“Rather than turning the page, it's much easier to just throw the book away.”
― Anthony Liccione