13 Quotes by Marina Lewycka

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

...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.

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?

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-uphumanity washed up on this faraway shore? This was where his journey had brought him.... There mus be a song in this...

Why you have such bourgeois preoccupation with all personal history?''Because it's important... it defines... it helps us understand... because we can learn... Oh, I don't know.

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

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 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?