Status Updates From Pădurea spînzuraţilor

Apostol: why are you avoiding me
Ilona: because you’re coming on way too strong
Apostol: so like do you wanna get married
Ilona: “yes” is obviously what I will say next because I did not just express that you frighten me less than a page ago

(Yes, I understand she symbolizes the purity of the Transylvanian peasant; yes, she was clearly into him anyway; it was still a bit weird)

“He had thought he was fond of all those belonging to his own people, yet the minute he did not find his own hatred in their hearts, his own love was blown away like dust in the wind.”