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“All the most cruel words that a brutal man could say, he said to her in her imagination, and she could not forgive him for them, as though he had actually said them.

“…seeing at a glance that she was in one of her good moods. He was used by now to these transitions…”

“Yet as soon as he was out of the room, she ceased to think of him.”

Anna makes a man feel he’s the only one in the world.

“And her smile and her glance — all told him that it was to him only she was addressing her words, valuing his good opinion, and at the same time sure beforehand that they understood each other.”

“Let him weary of her, but he would be here with her, so that she would see him, would know of every action he took.”

Oh my god sending drunk telegraphs was a thing. We’ve always been the same.

“He knew that way she had of withdrawing into herself, and knew that it only happened when she had determined upon something without letting him know her plans.”

“…he…half sincerely believed in what what he longed to believe in—her reasonableness.”

When Anna doesn’t want to talk about something, she shuts the conversation down completely.

Anna is aware of her life’s troubles, but deludes herself into inaction. Just when the reality of a situation gets close enough, she shuts down. It drives Vronsky, who is equally affected by the troubles but unable to shut himself off from them, completely mad.

Why do we have to keep mentioning that Vronsky is going bald lmao. Poor guy catching strays.