Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.
“But Fate would not have the reputation it has if it simply did what it seemed it would do.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“he had expressed the belief that everything in life had a pattern and that a coincidence was simply the moment when that pattern became briefly visible.”
― Magpie Murders
― Magpie Murders
“I was asleep, of course, and dreaming, but I remember wondering how he had managed to enter my world before the thought occurred to me that maybe it was I who had entered his.”
― Magpie Murders
― Magpie Murders
“For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in a city famous for its idiosyncratic culture and yet, the very habits, fashions, and ideas that exalt that city in the eyes of the world may make no sense to him at all.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“For what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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