Author: Irina Reyn

Cites

• Leo Tolstoy (1)
  • IN: What Happened to Anna K (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history.
    FROM: War and Peace, (1869), Novel, Russia
• Salman Rushdie (1)
  • IN: What Happened to Anna K (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The truth is that once we have left our childhood places and started out to make up our lives, armed only with what we have and are, we understand that the real secret of the ruby slippers is not that "there's no place like home," but rather that there is no longer any such place as home: except, of course, for the home we make, or the homes that are made for us, in Oz: which is anywhere, and everywhere, except the place from which we began.
    FROM: The Wizard of Oz, (1900), Book, India/England
• Catherine the Great (1)
  • IN: The Imperial Wife (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If I may dare to use such terms, I take the liberty to assert on my own behalf that I was an honest and loyal knigts, whose mind was infinitely more male than female.
    FROM: Memoirs, (2005), Book, UK