Book: Soon there will be a storm. Page 1

Drug addicts and alcoholics, in her experience, are the most sophisticated and experienced liars and hypocrites on the planet.

The tension that reigned in the house was quite an ordeal for an adult; what can we say about a seven-year-old? Her mother and father were in a nightmarish state of unspoken hostility.

The British were terrible - but how skillful! - hypocrites. They scolded their class system or, moreover, pretended that it no longer exists, but right now the system is working perfectly. The English class system proved to be a malleable, but by no means fragile, mechanism with a reliable protection device. It allowed you to protect yourself from the predatory instincts of people who had less to lose than you.

You didn't have to have perfect vision to see some of the features of Christie, who certainly couldn't pass by any man without experiencing the power of her attracting glances.

She could forgive anyone for a love affair if it arose as a result of a sizzling passion, an unrestrained desire, like a bout of tropical fever, but now there were all the dangerous signs that this connection arose only as a convenient tool with which to injure someone else, and this - even if a person deserved such a massacre - according to Rachel, was unacceptable.

Collecting the stamps of another country in itself does not mean that you are eager to break away from the place and move to this country.

If James ever decides to divorce, it is not at all in order to get another wife, but in order to find another life.

It is generally accepted that women are eternally pestering their lovers with the demand to leave their wives for the sake of a higher form of love.

Mom was crying, so something wasn't going right. Things weren't going as they should. Everything was wrong.

He knew he had plenty of enemies. In the eighties, making a career, he walked over his head without hesitation. If the path to the goal can be likened to a competition in which participants climb up a slippery pole, then we must admit that James did not just push opponents down, but mercilessly chopped off the heads of the losers.

Don't you think the weather affects our behavior more than we would like to admit?

When people first meet, they may start to speak sincerely. Then, inevitably - for most of them pretty soon, and in many cases and in general at once - one or another of them will begin to lie. In my experience, this is almost impossible to avoid. You know how to lie with ease - exactly what I need.

I'm not the one laughing at you, James. This is life. Life laughs at you.

It seems to them that the truth will poison your childhood years.