It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
“I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.”
“To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.”