Berta Kreice’s Reviews > The Idiot > Status Update

“Then I realized I wanted it to rain because maybe Ivan and his family would come back to Budapest a day early and Ivan might call me. I knew there were a lot of flaws in this reasoning. But my body didn’t know.”

“”Don’t worry, nobody wants to marry me,” I said. But somewhere inside, a tiny part of me felt a thrill.”

“Ivan carried my suitcase downstairs. I understood that the rest of my life would consist of causing Ivan to lug that suitcase in and out of his mother’s old car, for all our days.”

“Microsoft Word was for kids, but the typewriter was God, the desk shook with each keystroke.”