russia Quotes

″‘Who would have imagined,’ he said, ‘when you were sentenced to life in the Metropol all those years ago, that you had just become the luckiest man in all of Russia.‘”

“Our churches, known the world over for their idiosyncratic beauty, for their brightly colored spires and improbable cupolas, we raze one by one. We topple the statues of old heroes and strip their names from the streets, as if they had been figments of our imagination. Our poets we either silence, or wait patiently for them to silence themselves.”

“On a scale from one to ‘invade Russia in winter,’ how stupid is this plan?”

“Shall we sum up the whole history of Russia in a single phrase? It is the land of smothered opportunities.”

“The only things she had left of backhome Russia were her dress and babushka she liked to throw up into the air when she was dancing.”

“We will make a quilt to help us remember home, it will be like having the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night.”

“As it walks one way, it sings songs. As it walks the other, it tells stories. This is one of the stories the cat tells.”