About Odintsova the narrator says, "Like all women who never managed to fall in love, she longed for something without knowing precisely what it was."
Fathers and Sons, Turgenev.
All the same, she rejects Bazarov after extracting a declaration of love from the fellow.
"No," she decided once and for all, "God knows where it might have led; one mustn't fool around with this kind of thing; serenity is still better than anything else on earth [sic]."
In this same few pages, Arkady meets and begins a quieter affection for her younger sister, Katya.
Those are the two most important events of the novel, and they fall at its exact center.
How formally pleasant.
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