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"Her husband left her for the grave when she was only about eighteen, had lived with him only about a year, and had just bore him a son. Ever since, from the day of his death, she had consecrated himself entirely to the education of this precious boy of hers."

"Gentlemen, we are, all of us, cruel; all of us, monsters of cruelty. We, all of us, drive men, mothers, and babes at the breast to tears, but of us all, let it be decided now, of us all, I am the most villainous reptile. So be it."

"In response to further inquisitive questioning, she declared with a complete lack of equivocation that although, at times, she had found him appealing, she did not love him, but had led him on out of my loathsome malice, just as she had let on that little old man."

"'Oh, didn't you know?' Metya said, winking at him and smiling a smile of mockery and hatred. 'And what if I refuse to tell you? Who will you learn it from then?'"

"'After that, after that, I killed him, bashed him in the temple and opened his skull -- at any rate, that's your version of it!' He said with a sudden flash of his eyes, all his suppressed wrath suddenly rose with extraordinary violence within his soul."

girl chill, you're just making it worse

"'Take a drink of water.' The investigator repeated gently for the umpteenth time. 'I, I have taken one, gentlemen, I have taken one. But, go on, gentlemen; heh, squash me, punish me, decide my fate.' Mitya exclaimed, turning upon the investigator a bulging gaze of terrible fixity."

"I want to dance. I want to be naughty, good people, God will forgive me. If I were God I'd forgive everyone, my dear little sinners, from
this day hence I forgive you all,"

"'Well, God'll look after him if he's ill. So, did you really mean to shoot yourself tomorrow, you stupid fellow, and why? Actually, I like reckless men like you.' She prattled to him with a slightly heavy tongue. 'So you'll go to any lengths for my sake, will you, eh?'"

"There began something disorderly and preposterous, but Mitiya was as if in his native element and the more preposterous things became, the more animated grew his spirits."

"A thousand times he's shouted things in that style when he was drunk at the inn. But now he isn't drunk -- drunk in spirit, that's the style scoundrel's favor."