Book: The director said: dress warmly, it’s cold here

If, because of wrong words, actions and decisions, a red light came on over a person’s head, then an endless scarlet fireworks would be booming above me.

We went for a walk. As we thought - to the park. I packed my bag and children. She dressed herself in white. This is a very alarming sign in general when a mother of two small children dresses in white for a walk with them. Either she was about to die, or she had gone crazy and needed to be put to sleep so that she would no longer torture anyone.

When I had children, I realized how many feelings I had not experienced before. People who don't have children have no idea that they are only experiencing the basics. Love, anger, joy, despair and so on. Chefs say that tomatoes are natural flavor enhancers. Children are like tomatoes, the most powerful sense amplifiers. You understand what unconditional love is, love without conditions, when you love not because, but SO. But at the same time, you experience all the shades of anger and despair. You will learn what absolute joy and complete hopelessness are. You become kinder, much kinder. Very vulnerable. Now, when you listen to the news and they say “one child died as a result of the terrorist attack,” you quickly switch. Just not to hear, just not to know. Previously, the whole world could have died in a terrorist attack, and you wouldn’t have cared. Now it is impossible to imagine any suffering of any child. Neither war, nor illness, nor an orphanage.

So, I thought, we’ll buy a car and drive everywhere with a camera. When we bought it, our first thought was: “Hurray! We can now go to Auchan and shop in cartloads!” And I immediately hated myself for it because I didn’t think, “Yay! Trips!". Packs of toilet paper are also family. Part of this event.

A lonely person perceives everything very acutely. His nerves, like roots, crawl out and do not live under the skin. It has no land to grow into.

The worst thing is when you are alone. When there is no man nearby. This is very important for a woman when a man is nearby.

Pasha has a daughter. He worries that someday some Igor will appear and start touching his daughter with his hands. She will come and say: “Dad, this is Igor.” Igor will speak in a deep voice and extend his hand. Pasha, of course, will shake hands, but he will think that this brute is touching his daughter. Pasha is very worried, he already hates Igor. He thinks about his daughter, sooner or later he will have this acquaintance, she is almost grown up. She is 5 months old. That is, she was not born yet. She is 5 months old in her belly.

Epilation is when hair is removed from a living person without first killing it.

The rarest pleasure is when you really want to sleep, and you can sleep as much as you want.

There are very few people in the world with whom there is something to keep silent about.

The smell of the subway is the sweat of big cities.

The worst thing a mother can do in the morning is wake her up.

When I was little, everyone said: “You can’t do that, you’re already a grown girl!” And when she grew up, everyone backed down: “You can’t do that, you’re still small.”