Цитаты из книги Les Testaments

Forbidden things are open to the imagination. That was why Eve ate the Apple of Knowledge, said Aunt Vidala: too much imagination.

We girls knew the truth: that it was better to be pretty than ugly.

Любовь — это дисциплина, как молитва

Better to hurl rocks than to have them hurled at you.

Keep steady, I told myself. Don’t share too much about yourself, it will be used against you. Listen carefully. Save all clues. Don’t show fear.

How tedious is a tyranny in the throes of enactment. It’s always the same plot.

Не спешите, безмолвно советую им я: будет хуже

They said calm things like You need to be strong. They were trying to make things better. But it can put a lot of pressure on a person to be told they need to be strong. That’s another thing I’ve learned.

You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

By this time I was feeling glum, which is one of the effects a birthday can have: you’re expecting a magic transformation but then it doesn’t happen.

You can be angry at dead people, but you can never have a conversation about what they did; or you can only have one side of it.

All that festers is not gold, but it can be made profitable in non-monetary ways: knowledge is power, especially discreditable knowledge.

In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.

...детей я любила, детей я всегда хотела, просто я не хотела того, что к детям прилагалось.

Царство террора – так говорили прежде, но террор не то чтобы царствует. Нет, он парализует.