Quotes from Marina Lewycka

A man needs enough...no less, no more.

In every life there is a moment when you can break free of taken forgranted situations and strike out in a different direction

Tractors and boobs. There you have it.

reading the Guardian makes you morose compared with the Telegraph. Maybe

What happened in war? People died -- that's what happened.' He fixed me with that stubborn clenched-jaw look. 'Those who were bravest perished first. Those who believed in something died for belief. Those who survived...' He starts to cough. 'You know that more than twenty million Soviet citizens perished in this war.

Fine tuning,' Father explains. 'But will the Rolls-Royce make it to Ukraina?' 'Of course. Why not?

For it's only when you reach your destination that you discover the road doesn't end here after all.

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.

A man needs enough...no less, no more.

When I saw the car pulling into the driveway and I saw her getting out and walking towards the house, can you imagine Nadezhda, I performed involuntary excretion in my trousers.

The tractor must always be used as an aid to nature, not as a driver of nature. The tractor must work in harmony with the climate, and the fertility of the land, and the humble spirit of the farmers.

Use the technology which the engineer as developed, but use it with a humble and questioning spirit. Never allow technology to be your master, and never use it to gain mastery over others.

In the early days of space travel, one interesting problem emerged from experiments with weightlessness. Americans found that ... normal ink pen would not work without gravity feed. Scientists undertook extensive research, finally developed high-technology pen to work in conditions of no gravity. In Russia, scientist faced with the same problem found a different solution. Instead of pen, they used pencil.

There is a special sadness at the end of a journey. For it's only when you get to your destination that you discover the road doesn't end here after all.

Nadia, if all women were to wear paint on their faces, just think, there could be no more natural selection. The inevitable result would be the uglification of the species. You wouldn't want that to happen, would you?

With a feeling of despondency so intense that it was almost pleasurable, he got out his guitar. So this was to be his condition now.What was he but a fragment of broken churned-up humanity washed up on this faraway shore? This was where his journey had brought him.... There mus be a song in this...

Only the image of my father is unclear, as if something obscure but vital has been blotted out, and only the raging surface is left. Who is he, this man whom I have known and not known all my life?

the wind in Ukraina blows very hard and cold at this moment. But it will not always be so. And where there is love, there is always enough warmth for the human soul to thrive.

Ukraina: he sighs, breathing in the remembered scent of mown hay and cherry blossom. But I catch the distinct synthetic whiff of New Russia. Her

Svaka žena ?eka gospodina Browna i njegovu tajanstvenu izbo?inu, vjernoga onkraj groba; onda odjednom shvati da ono što ?eka uop?e ne postoji i da ?e morati prihvatiti nešto drugorazredno. Kakvo razo?arenje.

Da, sve otkako je ?ovjek prvi put digao glavu iznad ulaza u špilju da pogleda zvijezde na nebu i pomislio kako bi bilo lijepo imati jednu takvu zvijezdu samo za sebe, sanjao je o tome da drugi rade za njega i da on za to pla?a što je manje mogu?e.

Although I had long since stopped regarding myself as a Christian, I still thought of Christians as being basically decent, tolerant easy-going types like myself, while Muslims I'd always thought of as, well, let's say a bit prone to fundamentalism.

There is no solution. I can see no possibility of peace in my lifetime. So long as they continue with their attacks, we will continue our defenses. We are trapped in tits for tats. It is impossible for someone so sensitive like myself to live life this way.