Author: Leila Slimani

Cites

• Rudyard Kipling (1)
  • IN: The Perfect Nanny (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Miss Vezzis came from across the Borderline to look after some children who belonged to a lady until a regularly ordained nurse could come out. The lady said Miss Vezzis was a bad, dirty nurse, and inattentive. It never struck her that Miss Vezzis had her own life to lead and her own affairs to worry over, and that these affairs were the most important things in the world to Miss Vezzis.
    FROM: Plain Tales from the Hill, (1888), Book, UK
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)
  • IN: The Perfect Nanny (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "Do you understand, dear sir, do you understand what it means when there is absolutely nowhere to go?" Marmeladov's question of the previous day came suddenly into his mind. "For every man must have somewhere to go."
    FROM: Crime and Punishment, (1866), Novel, Russia