Important Quotations Explained
1. All
happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its
own way.
2. In
that brief glance Vronsky had time to notice the restrained animation
that played over her face and fluttered between her shining eyes
and the barely noticeable smile that curved her red lips. It was
as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed
itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now
in her smile.
3. “Respect
was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. But
if you don't love me, it would be better and more honest to say
so.”
4. “No,
you're going in vain,” she mentally addressed a company in a coach-and-four
who were evidently going out of town for some merriment. “And the
dog you're taking with you won't help you. You won't get away from yourselves.”
5. “.
. . [M]y life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen
to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was
before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it
is in my power to put into it!”
