#tolstoy

"Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty."

"I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"I’ll be your Dostoevsky, if you’ll be my Tolstoy. Our life together will be so full of despair that death will be like a gulag full of joy."

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."