katerina ivanovna Quotes

She kept her head, forgetting herself, biting her trembling lips and stifling the screams which were ready to break from her.

She took up the basin of water at Raskolnikov’s request, but almost fell down with her burden.

“You might let him die in peace, at least,”

“You should respect the dead, at least!”

“God is merciful; look to the Most High for succour,” the priest began.

What earnings? He brought us in nothing but misery. He drank everything away, the drunkard!

“You must forgive in the hour of death, that’s a sin, madam, such feelings are a great sin.”

“that he was in no way their inferior, and perhaps very much their superior,”

The worst of it was his good nature made him trust all sorts of disreputable people, and he drank with fellows who were not worth the sole of his shoe.

“Some fools would be the better for a good drubbing, as well as having their hair pulled. I am not talking of my late husband now!”

I am alone in the world! They would let me in! Do you think they wouldn’t? You’re wrong, I will get in! I will get in!

You reckoned on her meekness! You relied upon that! But I am not so submissive, let me tell you!

“Else how are you to show that you are of good family, well brought-up children, and not at all like other organ-grinders?

“Your excellency!” she wailed suddenly with a heart-rending scream and a flood of tears, “protect the orphans! You have been their father’s guest... one may say aristocratic....”