B’s Reviews > Anna Karenina > Status Update

- well that was stressful!!
- “To have those feelings disturbed was painful; but she knew all the same that they were the best part of her inner self and that that part of her was being rapidly smothered by the life she was leading.”

-really enjoyed Mikhailov couldn’t believe what he said about Vronsky’s painting lmaoo
-ch 17-20 with Nikolai 😶
-“it was so necessary for him in his humiliation to possess at least this imaginary height from which he, despised of all, could despise others, that he clung to his sham salvation, as though it were true salvation.”

If Kitty dies Leo dies by my sword

-“these joys were so small that they were quite imperceptible, like grains of gold in sand; but there were also good moments when she saw nothing but joy, nothing but gold.”

Really like all these characters— everyone’s in their own unique mental trenches, and so tangible. Levin is so off-putting and you can just feel he’s been a few steps away from a serious spiritual catastrophe since his first sentence, it’s very compelling I want to mow with him for real.

- really enjoyed Laska the dog’s pov 😄
- “love was not a joke or a pastime, but something more ecstatic and important”
-“Kitty felt that in her, in her way of life, she could find the pattern she herself was so painfully seeking; interest in life, dignity of life…”

-“All his life he had lived and worked in official spheres, dealing with the reflection of life. And every time he had come up against life itself, he had kept aloof from it. Now he experienced a sensation such as a man might experience who, having calmly crossed a bridge over a chasm, suddenly discovers that the bridge has been demolished and that there is a yawning abyss in its place.“

- ok i get it I’m in love with her too!
-“to live with him now will be torture to me, just because I love my past love for him”
-“you’re both in the wrong. You more outwardly and he more inwardly”
-p. 111-112