Character: Mom
She used to be friends with you because everything was bad with you. And compared to you, she didn’t seem so unhappy.
Quote Explanation: The friend stopped being friends with Katya after Katya’s life got better.
Any wine will be terrible if you drink it like beer. It is obvious.
Why apologize if you don't feel guilty?
- Tomorrow! I'll give you something tomorrow. It's going to be a surprise.
- Surprise? Ophelia peered at her mother's pale face.
- Yes.
- Is it a book? Ophelia asked.
- Book? Mom laughed softly. - Not a book, no. Much better!
Ophelia did not remind her that for her nothing could be better than a book. Mom won't understand. She does not seek refuge in books, is not transferred to another, magical world. She sees only this world, and even then not always, Ophelia thought. Mom is tightly attached to the ground, which is what she's so sad about. Books could tell her a lot about the world, about distant countries, about animals and plants, about the stars! Book pages can become open windows and doors, on paper wings you can fly away. Maybe my mother just forgot how to fly. Or maybe she never did.
- Surprise? Ophelia peered at her mother's pale face.
- Yes.
- Is it a book? Ophelia asked.
- Book? Mom laughed softly. - Not a book, no. Much better!
Ophelia did not remind her that for her nothing could be better than a book. Mom won't understand. She does not seek refuge in books, is not transferred to another, magical world. She sees only this world, and even then not always, Ophelia thought. Mom is tightly attached to the ground, which is what she's so sad about. Books could tell her a lot about the world, about distant countries, about animals and plants, about the stars! Book pages can become open windows and doors, on paper wings you can fly away. Maybe my mother just forgot how to fly. Or maybe she never did.
I'm not evil, I'm a funny character of the second plan.
I just almost fell into an old well.
Yeah.
- Almost died.
- Here you go.
Yeah.
- Almost died.
- Here you go.
With the kids. If something goes against their interests, from rebelling.
- I never understood Russian authors. Dick understand why pull, pull.
- What Dostoevsky does not like?
Oh, okay, the worst of them all.
- What Dostoevsky does not like?
Oh, okay, the worst of them all.
- Sometimes I think I'm a bad mother. But I still want my children to be happy.
Trust me, that's enough. In parenting it is.
Trust me, that's enough. In parenting it is.
Plants is truly amazing, isn't it? - continued mother. - We have so much do to their lime, and then they have save.
I wish I had a hundred years... so she said quietly. - Hundred years that I could spend with you.
I know, you know? I know what you want me to say so and to say not necessarily.
Do not restrain his anger, she said. And don't let anyone to restrain her. No grandma, no dad, nobody. And if you need to break and destroy all around - for the love of God, break and destroy hard and struggling... And if one day you turn back and feel guilty that you have so much anger for what you so mad at me to even talk to me couldn't remember what is normal.
The dress color doesn't matter. It is important, what is inside the heart.
Quote Explanation: Kiki doesn't like black colour dresses
- Mom, please don't go. Don't worry, dear. I'll be back soon. You could stay with daddy while he plays. Okay?
Quote Explanation: A conversation with Gerda's mother before her death
