Top 100 Aleksandr Voinov Quotes
#1. The shade melted away as the sun climbed into its zenith. All colors were now covered in stone dust. The only vigorous activity came from the bushes, where cicada songs pulsed like alien hearts.
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#2. Described as a "workaholic speed-writing freak" by fellow writers, a "creative writing class drill sergeant" by his writing 'padawans', Voinov is a self-confessed geek and has enlarged his days by 12 secret hours in return for the sacrifice of ten albino virgin pygmy hippos.
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#3. The savagery of the picture strange and alluring, Frank smeared with blood and absolutely at ease. Barbarian, primitive, visceral; if Tony had been given to myth-making, he would have wondered if there could be any more frightening god than one who was simultaneously provider and destroyer.
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#4. I understand how not even a priest can resist you when you want him. I can understand how love is something horrible and complex and hurting and something that still happens even if it shouldn't, and can't, and how one can want to be somebody else's world. I get it. And it fucking hurts.
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#5. All paradises have gates," Falchi said. "You'd wonder why God made Paradise with an exit if he didn't anticipate having to use it eventually.
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#6. I've never woken to another's body in the same bed, not since I was a child. There is something about it that makes waking up alone seem unnatural. Man is not meant to be alone, yet men like us (or maybe men like me) appear to be lonelier than others.
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#7. All men die, Kendras. Better get used to it. And then fight until the end, with every breath, every heartbeat, every single, last thought.
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#8. Stroke the fire, prod the tiger. Hate me. Hate me like you did that night. Let's start at the beginning, and end it right here, annihilate everything.
Annihilate me.
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#9. Half of love is restraint. Patience and respect. Don't waste your time on the unworthy.
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#10. I like men with weaknesses, his father had said. I can buy them. Men without weaknesses I have to kill.
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#11. ... and then showed Owen the reservation. Four people.
"But we're only two," Owen said.
"Yeah, but my ego needs more space than that.
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#12. Whatever you want, Sergei. Mike meant what he said beyond the immediate context, but found he was unable to put it into words. They wouldn't come. They had no form. Whatever it was didn't even have a tangible emotion to be labeled.
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#13. I want a writer to trust my intelligence. After all, I trust her/his skill to entertain me.
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#15. The leopard is a cruel lover. His tenderness breaks the gazelle's heart.
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#17. He'd do anything, absolutely everything for this man, suck him, kill, kill himself, run away, be something else, anything else, everything just blurred, darkness, a place inside that only held him and Dan. Nobody else, nothing else, no time, no place, no affiliations, no past, no future.
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#18. Not ... good." Stefano pressed his lips together.
"Okay. Don't speak I'll touch you, okay?"
"You do," Stefano answered. You do touch me.
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#20. Dan's voice was rough and low as he murmured against Vadim's lips. 'I hate you, Russkie.' No. He didn't, but he couldn't find the right word for this. This feeling. Hatred was the closest he could get. The alternative was still unthinkable.
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#21. I think it sometimes takes me a while, but I end up making good decisions at some point. Pretty much when I have exhausted all other options.
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#22. You everything I need. I'm just saying, I trust you. Whatever you want to do. I need you. And that includes ways and things that everybody else would shy away from. Because we're not everybody, Dan. We're us.
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#23. In the end, this armor is my skin. If it is damaged, I am damaged.
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#24. Pretty is different,' he murmured. 'Pretty has no scars. You are ... ' jaw muscles tensed again. 'Like the morning sky in Afghanistan. Not 'pretty'. Word's 'breathtaking'.
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#25. Does a man work harder for being unhappy, unfulfilled? Is he less dedicated to his job, if he is allowed to commit himself for a life to another man instead of a woman?
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#26. A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story.
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#27. He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed underneath his skin.
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#28. Sometimes history is just an excuse for incompetence at getting along with each other.
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#29. I want to learn his body, find every pleasure it's hiding. All this reverence and simple awe I feel when I touch him, feel his breath brush my skin.
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#30. I tried that too, you know. After ... my family was murdered, and I was waiting for justice, I tried to hide inside a bottle. But some men, Tony, [..] are not small enough to fit into a bottle.
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#31. Make that cage golden, it's still a fucking cage."
"Wel , in the absence of other options, gold will have to do.
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#32. Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, for
coming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn't able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity.
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#33. Because I love you and I can't get enough of you. That emotion ran deeper and deeper, like a river than had reached open plains, soft earth, and could burrow deeper now, build more force. There was no sense anymore that it would end, had to end, was better if it ended.
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#35. Some men want to win a gold medal, some want a family, some want to be rich, some want to be free, some want to kill other men, and some men want to do the right thing. Me, I only want you.
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#36. I need you." He could not go any further down. Rock bottom. And at the very bottom was just this one thing. The core of it all. "Fucking ... love you ... too much.
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#37. Tell me why I shouldn't shoot you," Stefano murmured. Low, intimate, just between them.
"Fun ... would be over too fast?
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#38. I'd meant to seduce him into my bed but he seduced me into his life.
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#39. Hatred had blossomed from the vine of contempt in his heart, flowers of dark, grim splendor.
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#40. Falling in love with you isn't easy. Most people waver between loving you and killing you, and you're usually lucky they come out at the loving you side.
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#41. Take me on R&R, aye? Back to where we were before, or a similar place. Sea, sky, sun, and sex 24/7. Deal?' ... 'Make that 12/7 - getting old.
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#42. The fact there was the desire that had been the basis of everything, much before any feelings or thoughts had become important, complicating it all.
I missed you, Dan. Everything.
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#43. History is nothing but good people dying for the wrong reasons.
(Graukar)
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#44. Love can be like a commanding officer. It's unfair, random, cruel, but it gets you through the war, somehow, gets you where you have to be. (Vadim)
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#45. Arousal is a fairly complex thing. Many people masturabate when they're bored, not because they're aroused. (Dima)
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#46. Did you order it to kidnap me? Or was that its own idea? Sergei stepped closer, fighting the urge to punch the man and then check that he was all right. None of those responses made any sense.
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#47. I love you more than I can say, than I can even think and what you give me takes my breath away, but breathing is overrated when I can kiss you.
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#48. I don't want to talk." Dan's neck muscles tensed resisting Vadim's hand.
He didn't know the words and he didn't want to search for them. "I just want to feel." But no, that wasn't it. "I want to feel human.
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#50. You learn the wisest lessons from your enemy. If you live.
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#51. I've only ever really been afraid of the fear, but right now, I fear nothing.
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#52. Dan pulled him in. Anchored him. Secured him, like one mountain climber to the other, rope and irons and nothing but the abyss if the rope failed. "It will work. I haven't got this far to give up."
"It'll work." Dan's kisses grew more intense. "It must." Because you're mine, and you belong to me.
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#53. You're with me," Dan murmured against Vadim's lips. "In my thoughts, my heart, my mind, no matter what I am doing. I goddamned need you, and I want you - always.
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#54. His hand drifted up Jared's spine and into his hair. For a moment, he just stroked Jared's scalp, the movements slow, almost tender.
"Always hot watching a man get fucked." And then he grabbed Jared's hair and jerked his head back. "But even hotter watching him beg for it, isn't it?
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#55. It's hard to know a truth when you've never encountered one.
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#57. You're seriously in love, you know that? It's a great feeling, unless it hurts like a bitch.
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#58. I'm not the casual sex type."
"Yeah, I gathered that. Why? Bored?"
"I wish." Josh gave a short laugh and shook his head. "No, sex with me is complicated.
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#61. I don't want to be one of many stations you pass through." Paused, "I want to be the central station." He fell silent.
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#62. Never realized how much you might have been hurt, or worried ... you know. Others. Until I found out how fucking painful it is to fear losing you.'
'I never wanted anybody else after I'd found you. After I understood what it is we have. Didn't want any other man.
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#63. He did the same in the morning and didn't mind that Steel struggled against him. Steel needed to be subdued first, but he never said no, and he always came.
Maybe Steel thought he was being punished.
Maybe he thought the whipping was forgiven.
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#64. What do you want from me?"
"Own up to it. I can live with a cheater, but not with a coward.
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#65. He was doing Tony's dirty work, in a way - like Tony had done his in New York. One hand washing the other, neither of them getting clean.
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#66. We race towards something so amazing and precious it strikes me dumb with its immenseness. I lose every sense of myself, every thought; there's just emotion and utter fulfillment.
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#67. For me, he can walk on water, dance in the clouds. I know he can't, really, but what he can and can't do pales into nothing when I look at him.
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#68. It was easier being strong when another man was strong enough to be weak.
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#69. To take the measure of a man, watch not how he treats his friends, watch how he treats a conquered foe.
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#70. You want the truth? I've been fucked and betrayed often enough to not trust anybody. And that includes you." Frank shrugged. "Don't take it personal."
"Join the club. We meet Tuesdays. We never share the location with each other, and we show up armed.
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#71. You'd be quite sane and well-adjusted if your family had happened to somebody else
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#72. Blood, pain and an all-surpassing lust for one man settled so deeply into his bones, the need had become part of him. Bottomless, like the touch he craved. Vadim.
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#73. The motherfucker really finds a way to say something very simple in a very complicated way," murmured Jean near Dan's ear. "How many words does it take him to say 'I love you'?"
"None." Dan murmured, smiling. "We're long beyond that.
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#76. You'd be the first enemy that ever got shaved by Spetsnaz, and not in the way we mean 'shaving'." As in, cut throat.
"Hoo-fucking-ray.
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#77. What about the scar ... in my face. He managed to force out, couldn't
find the words, no better nor easier way to ask and even plead. Do you want me.
Do you honestly still want me?
Please, want me.
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#78. He could sense Kshar underneath, and he knew he'd be able to sense him in whatever body. Unchanged, genuinely him.
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#79. The past would always be part of the present, but at least that was true for both sides: the good and the bad.
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#80. Let me live. Keep me alive. Both sentences so close in English, but very different meaning.
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#81. Following orders is right. Giving orders for the wrong reasons isn't.
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#82. Vadim covered Dan's hand on his tight and thought how very strange it was that something that had started like that could now be like this. All that violence could smooth out into something so deep and good that it very nealry brought tears to his eyes.
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#83. The very thing that makes him a great killer makes him very much unsuitable for anything else.
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#84. Me, i'm going to write ass-kicking trans* characters. I think I might end up writing not a single thing that is "pure" by some people's standards. Just because, and because I can.
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#85. You ... ." just you, always you. My russian Cu**, my enemy, my comrade, my prisoner, my gaoler and my life. Words unthinking. "Love ... ... you.
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#86. He told it as he saw it. His way of lying was to remain silent.
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#87. One touch from you ... ," water coated his lips, gathered in thick drops on his dark lashes, "makes me feel more than a whole goddamned orgy.
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#88. You're better than the mountains, you know. Murmured against Vadim's lips.
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#89. They sat like this for a long, long time. Until the air grew cold and the stone tiles icy, and until Dan's body protested with stiffness and increasing aches. Sitting, in silence, just holding, and unable to make sence, when the only thing that made sense was the touch.
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#90. Spencer: "Based on the number of drinks?"
Nick: "Based on the number of licks.
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#91. Your father's impressive.'He's a scary motherfucker, but we get along well.
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#92. Lately, the thought of tomorrow is like the thought of a hundred years into the future. Who can imagine that Germany will still exist?
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#93. It's really rather simple.' Dan took the refilled glass, 'I love Vadim.
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#94. I sit, smoking, my head against the cool comfort of the fighter plane's wheel, its wing shielding but never embracing me. I'm a cold nestling tonight.
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#95. Ask me again when you're inside me, and I might even whisper the truth.
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#96. No rules. No Revision. No Doctrine up here. Dizzying. He could be free if he wanted. Among enemies. He could stay here and keep his memories. Or go away and keep his memories. Or go back home and cease to exist. "It feels wretched and wrong."
But it feels.
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#97. You seem to be the one for firsts," his breath caught, "and lasts and always.
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#98. Train as if you had to bring the horse down, not the rider. Fight bulls, not men, and men won't best you.
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#99. Vadim felt Dan's breath against his chest, shifted his legs to allow him to lie close, and pushed a fold of the blanket back to make sure Dan was fully covered. Dan. Always him. Always, and again and again.
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#100. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.
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