Blurbos Rating (5)
If you haven’t embarked on this literary classic yet, be prepared for an emotional rollercoaster that will resonate long after you’ve turned the last page. It’s a masterpiece that belongs on everyone’s reading list.
Easily one of the greatest novels I’ve ever read.
Highlights
Kitty looked into his face, which was so close to her own, and long afterwards—for several years after—that look, full of love, to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame.
<Anna Karenina>(Leo Tolstoy) Highlight on page 150 | Location 2286-2287 2020-01-29 23:23:41
“No, you’re not going to get away from us, and you’re not going to be different, but you’re going to be the same as you’ve always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won’t get, and which isn’t possible for you.”
<Anna Karenina>(Leo Tolstoy) Highlight on page 167 | Location 2560-2562 2020-01-29 23:43:49
“Then they ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.”
<Anna Karenina>(Leo Tolstoy) Highlight on page 226 | Location 3455-3456 2020-01-31 23:26:00
There had been in his past, as in every man’s, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences.
<Anna Karenina>(Leo Tolstoy) Highlight on page 243 | Location 3726-3728 2020-01-31 23:46:46
Sviazhsky was sitting sideways, with one elbow on the table, and a cup in one hand, while with the other hand he gathered up his beard, held it to his nose and let it drop again, as though he were smelling it.
<Anna Karenina>(Leo Tolstoy) Highlight on page 479 | Location 7343-7344 2020-02-11 00:11:35
and now she loved him as a woman can love when love has outweighed for her all the good things of life—and he was much further from happiness than when he had followed her from Moscow.
<Anna Karenina>(Leo Tolstoy) Highlight on page 517 | Location 7921-7922 2020-02-12 20:25:42
Then he had thought himself unhappy, but happiness was before him; now he felt that the best happiness was already left behind. She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her.
<Anna Karenina>(Leo Tolstoy) Highlight on page 517 | Location 7922-7923 2020-02-12 20:27:35
“Here,” he said; and he wrote the initial letters, w, y, t, m, i, c, n, b, d, t, m, n, o, t. These letters meant, “When you told me it could never be, did that mean never, or then?”
<Anna Karenina>(Leo Tolstoy) Highlight on page 568 | Location 8701-8702 2020-02-14 00:03:18
She wrote the initial letters, i, y, c, f, a, f, w, h. This meant, “If you could forget and forgive what happened.” He snatched the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, and breaking it, wrote the initial letters of the following phrase, “I have nothing to forget and to forgive; I have never ceased to love you.”
<Anna Karenina>(Leo Tolstoy) Highlight on page 569 | Location 8714-8716 2020-02-14 00:04:58