Three Key Quotes

“I am telling it. If I tell the whole truth just as it hap­pened I shan’t spare myself. My first idea was a—Karamazov one. Once I was bit­ten by a cen­tipede, brother, and laid up a fort­night with fever from it. Well, I felt a cen­tipede bit­ing at my heart then—a nox­ious insect, you under­stand? …

“You see, Alyosha,” Grushenka turned to him with a ner­vous laugh. “I was boast­ing when I told Rak­itin I had given away an onion, but it’s not to boast I tell you about it. It’s only a story, but it’s a nice story. I used to hear it when I was a child from Matry­ona, …