QUOTE STARTERS : IV ANNA AKHMATOVA
❛ You will hear thunder and remember me. ❜
❛ If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly. ❜
❛ I seem to myself an accidental guest in this dreadful body. ❜
❛ Call me a sinner, mock me maliciously. ❜
❛ I, from the very beginning, seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium. Or a reflection in someone else's mirror. Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. ❜
❛ I knew the list of crimes that I was destined to commit. ❜
❛ The future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future. ❜
❛ You are untranslatable into any one tongue. ❜
❛ I was hoping my silence would fit yours. ❜
❛ See, we were never about butterflies. All about us is unearthly and radiant. ❜
❛ You do not know just what you've been forgiven. ❜
❛ I need to slaughter my memory. ❜
❛ Forgive me that I appeared to you in waking dreams. ❜
❛ I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy. ❜
❛ I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death. ❜
❛ Wild honey smells of freedom. But gold smells of nothing. ❜
❛ You are three times more beautiful than angels. ❜
❛ I will kill you without spilling your blood on the ground, not touching you with my hand, not giving you one glance. ❜
❛ You invented me. There is no such earthly being. ❜
❛ You’re late. Way too late. I’m glad to see you, nonetheless. ❜
❛ Forgive me that I felt forsaken. Forgive me that I kept mistaking too many others for you. ❜
❛ Real tenderness can’t be confused, it’s quiet and can’t be heard. ❜
❛ What else lived in that house besides us? ❜
❛ How unhappy we are together! ❜
❛ I defend not my voice, but my silence. ❜
❛ Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure. ❜
❛ I've got no more tears or explanations. ❜
❛ I’m not complaining. Happiness is not for me. ❜
❛ Are you not the only tie between good and evil, earthly pits and paradise? ❜
❛ In the morning we shall find out who has died in the night. ❜