Status Updates From Doctor Zhivago

"The frequency of microscopic cardiac hemorrhages has increased greatly. It’s the disease of our time. I think its causes are of a moral order. A constant, systematic dissembling is required of the vast majority of us. It’s impossible, without its affecting your health, to show yourself day after day contrary to what you feel, to lay yourself out for what you don’t love, to rejoice over what brings you misfortune."

"I remember my childhood well. The death of a man at the hands of another was a rarity, an extraordinary phenomenon, out of the common run. Murders, it was supposed, happened only in tragedies, in detective novels, & in newspaper chronicles, not in ordinary life. & suddenly this leap from serene, innocent measuredness into blood & screaming, mass insanity, & the savagery of daily & hourly, lawful & extolled murder."

Im so obsessed with the prose in this. I'm afraid I've become a russian literature girl

“I shall see you, my beauty, my princess, my dearest rowan tree, my own heart’s blood.”

"Put an iron or something heavy on the lid of the pot, as I’ve done, to protect it from the rats. I’m out of my mind with joy.”