Marina Lewycka quotes

Marina Lewycka quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

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

Source : Marina Lewycka (2006). “A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian”, p.68, Penguin

#Falling In Love Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes
“Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcÃ©e. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.”
-- Marina Lewycka

Source : "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Book by Marina Lewycka, March 31, 2005.

#Mother Quotes #Memories Quotes #Father Quotes
“A man needs enough...no less, no more.”
-- Marina Lewycka

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