12 Quotes by Marina Dyachenko

Silence . . . Silence is what, Samokhina?”“Golden,” Sasha squeezed out.“Golden. From this point on, Samokhina, you are to be silent. This exercise is intended to speed up certain processes, which are beginning to emerge, but are way too slow at this moment. You are not to speak a single word, neither here, nor outside. Nowhere at all. I forbid you.

This institution of higher education had no such concept as mercy.

Apparently, unlike Portnov, not all of the professors here had manners worthy of the Spanish Inquisition.