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I ignored her and continued down the hall. I had only four more hours to perfect the Sausalito. I was worried only about myself. By that stage, I was no longer certain of how the pack felt about anything. ↗


— Karen Russell


#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home

Far away, I can hear Mouflon, our last sheep, bleating in the dark. I wonder if Annie is still out to protect her, still scouring the woods in barefoot pursuit of those dogs. I feel sorry for Annie, alone with a rabid pack of her own delusions. I feel sorrier for Mouflon. She's alone with Annie. ↗


— Karen Russell


#karen-russell #sleep-away-camp #home

INERTIA: Unless an object is acted on by friction from an outside force, it will spiral through space, in the same direction at the same speed - indefinitely! ↗


— Karen Russell


#star-gazers-log #summer-time-crime #home

I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father sees you, how strong and necessary he thinks you are. ↗


— Karen Russell


#karen-russell #westward-migration #home

On Sundays, the pretending felt almost as natural as nature. The chapel was our favorite place. Long before we could understand what the priest was saying, the music instructed us in how to feel. ↗


— Karen Russell


#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home

I love you," she sobbed, rubbing her hands over his face, his hair, his chest, making sure he was solid and real. "I love you, and I thought you were dead. I couldn't bear it. I thought I would die too." "I'd walk through fire for you," he rasped, his voice hoarse and broken. "I have walked through fire for you. ↗


— Elizabeth Hoyt


#lazarussgextraordinaire #temperance #wicked-intensions #love

I speak the language of love. That’s right, I speak Russian. 
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— Jarod Kintz


#language-of-love #love #russian #love

Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty. ↗


— P.G. Wodehouse


#humor #moroseness #russia #satire #sorrow

Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy. ↗


— John Vaillant


#economic-policy #humor #radio-call-in-shows #russia #humor

Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand. ↗


— Ann Patchett


#russians #humor






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