Allen Ovc

“It can't be helped, Vasya. A son is like a lopped-off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists; but you and I are like mushrooms growing in a hollow tree. Here we sit side by side without budging. But I shall stay with you for ever and unalterably, just as you will stay with me.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“So you believe anyone who makes a fool of you, and you won't believe anyone who means well by you.”
― Franz Kafka, Amerika

“Scoundrels."
"Yes, scoundrels, maybe. You know these are only words."
"All my life I did not want it to be only words. This is why I lived, because I kept not wanting it. And now, too, every day I want it not to be words.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

“And there was that other time, some years ago, at her father's funeral, when, having understood that death, which was 'the most direct way to heaven and the angels,' was not only the result of God's will, but was something that could be chosen, and she herself was determined to find out how that worked, it was her brother who had enlightened her. She couldn't have possibly worked it out by herself: she needed him to tell her what exactly to do, a solution she might perhaps have stumbled on by herself, which was that 'rat poison would do the trick too.”
― László Krasznahorkai, Satantango