Ramez Noshy

“something that happens almost always with women who maintain their clarity of spirit, freshness of impressions, and honest, pure intensity of heart as they age. Let us add in parentheses that to maintain all this is the only way to preserve one’s beauty even in old age.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“He studied diligently, unsparingly, and for that they respected him, but no one liked him”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“We’re endgame.”
I wipe a stray tear from the corner of my eye. “What does that mean?”
“It means that we’ll wind up together eventually. It might take a year for us to sort everything out, or two, or ten. Whatever. But it’ll happen.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“I was told to ‘love my neighbor,’ and did so, what came of that?” continued Petr Petrovich, perhaps with excessive haste. “What came of it was that I tore my cloak in two, gave half to my neighbor, and we both wound up half naked”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment