Dmitri ivanovich mendeleev Quotes

“You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri.” A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. “So I had to come back for you . . . husband.”

“I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?”

“In my time,” he said, “they believed in witches. Are you a witch, Honor, that you make me say these things to you?” Causing him to rip open wounds that had stayed safely scabbed over for so long that, most of the time, he managed to forget they existed. Her hands, so very, very gentle, continued to hold his face as she tugged him down until their foreheads touched. “I’m no witch, Dmitri. If I was, I’d know how to fix you.”

“I have achieved an inner freedom.”

“I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.”

“Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.”

“There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.”

“Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.”

“When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.”