Best 6 quotes of Marina Lewycka on MyQuotes

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

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

Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. 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.

...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.

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.

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