Cool People Rebel Against Authority/Quotes

"Naidenovich reacted on this mention furiously: - Ah, those "People's-Will"-ers! Ah, that Perovskaya! If I lived back then, I'd strangle her with bare hands. Then I couldn't help but speak up: - You are slandering yourself. You would not go strangle Perovskaya. Naidenovich got excited even more. - Me? Her? This scum? Who at the Tsar-Father with a bomb... I swear, would strangle without hesitation. - Indeed! - I said - Why get worked up this much? You know yourself poorly. At that time you not only would not strangle Perovskaya, but on the contrary, would together with her throw bombs at the Tsar-Father. She expected any objection but this. - Me? At the Tsar-father? Bombs? Do you know that I am a convinced monarchist? - I see that you are a convinced monarchist. Because now it's fashionable to be a convinced monarchist. And back then it was fashionable to throw bombs at the Tsar-Father. And you of all people, with your temper, would surely end up among the bombists."

- V. N. Voynovich, Self-portrait: the novel of my life