The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.