Audrey Dubois’s Reviews > Doctor Zhivago > Status Update

and then the start of Part 12 hits you with "Some living intimacy was established between the birds and the tree. As if the rowan saw it all, resisted for a long time, then surrendered, taking pity on the little birds, yielded, unbuttoned herself, and gave them the breast, like a nurse to a baby. 'Well, what can I do with you? Go on, eat, eat me. Feed yourselves.' And she smiled."

Yuri on multiple occasions is like "Liberius is so annoying I'm gonna kill him for real this time" and then he overhears a plot to assassinate Liberius and he's like "I gotta warn him so he doesn't die"

Dr. Zhivago digging out the train tracks covered in snow, call that YURI!!! On Ice

Yuri: do you remember that girl that fired a gun at that Christmas party? well she's here working as a nurse now! ain't that something

Tonia, sobbing: You must go to her. I give my blessing. I will raise our son with dignity and honor

"Man in other people is man's soul. That is what you are, that is what your conscience breathed, relished, was nourished by all your life. Your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what then? You have been in others and you will remain in others. And what difference does it make to you that later it will be called memory? It will be you, having entered into the composition of the future."

"The object of the visit was exhausted. It was necessary to say something lively and unforced in farewell. A strained and unpleasant conversation began."

"Their arrival had been senseless, their further presence here was indecent."

"The sonata was known to be dull and forced, cerebral. It fulfilled expectations, and moreover proved to be terribly drawn out."

nobody writes tedium like Pasternak (complimentary)