“Happiness is only for those who have never experienced pleasure. There is an eternal war between these two gods, and the first one is only winning until the second one shows up. And when it shows up from around the corner, with bared shoulders and lips swollen from all the kissing, happiness is being put aside like a book that’ open in the middle, to finish it later when it rains and there’s nothing else to do.”

“Happiness is only for those who have never experienced pleasure.”

“True art must hurt. Who said that?”

“Arina stepped out, for the first time in her life doing something impossible, something prohibited.”

“They say time heals. They also say that time and work heal three times faster.”

“Ruining the life of little innocent girls goes against my principles, my dear Snow White.”

“Is it scary to feel that you are absolutely powerless?”

“Two months and then he’ll find another toy? Nellie was right. What is going to happen to me after?”

“You sound as if happiness and pleasure were not the same.”