" Later, when all the air in the new life had become like it can be in a room where the windows are broken out and all the familiar faces have strangely drained into themselves, like water into worn out sand, Nina Alexandrovna suddenly realized that now it was impossible, forbidden, and foolish to be happy for someone else. "

― Olga Slavnikova , The Man Who Couldn't Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being