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#1. She knew that alexander was sitting on the bench by the house slightly behind her, and that he was watching her. he was doing that more and more often. Watching her as he smoked. And smoked. And smoked.
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#2. Breathing in Shepelevo was like hitting the right note on the piano. There was only one note. When I was young, Shepelevo was the smell of nettles, of salted smoked fish, of fresh water from the Gulf of Finland, and of burning firewood, all wrapped up in one Shepelevo.
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#3. No! he wanted to cry out. No, Tania, please come back. What can I leave her with, what can I say, what one word can I leave with her, for her? What one word for my wife?
"Tatiasha," Alexander called after her. God, what was the curator's name ... ?
She glanced back.
"Remember Orbeli-
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#4. Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?
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#5. Never forget where you came from, Gina Attaviano, Alessandro said to her before he died. Then it will always be easy.
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#6. We'll meet again in Lvov, my love and I ... Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.
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#7. You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.
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#8. Tatia, let me take care of you. He stopped and took a breath.
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#10. Alexander tilted his head and kissed her deeply on the lips. He let go of her hands, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, pressing herself against him. They kissed as if in a fever ... they kissed as if the breath were leaving their bodies.
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#11. Will you remember that? Anywhere you are, if you can look up and find Perseus in the sky, find that smile, and hear the galactic wind whisper your name, you'll know that it's me, calling for you ... calling you back to Lazarevo. (Alexander)
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#12. The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his eyes.
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#13. Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she was a little girl, she dreamed of a fine world in which a good man walked its winding roads, perhaps somewhere in his wandering soul searching for her.
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#14. Do you remember what you're supposed to do now? Kiss the palm of your hand and press it against your heart.
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#15. I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.
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#16. We will call him Anthony Alexander Barrington. After my father and brother. We'll call him Alexander.
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#17. Alexander looked into the barrel of one of the guns. He blinked.
O God, please look after Tania all alone in the world.
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#18. Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.
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#19. The presence of so many words inside her head made her incapable of small talk, just at the time when she needed small talk most.
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#20. You want to know what I thought of in that boat?
I thought, I have to stay alive. Tatiasha will never forgive me.
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#21. Alexander was silent. "Now you're really tiny," he said at last. "I'm not tiny," she returned. "You're just outsized." Blushing, she lowered her gaze.
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#22. It wasn't first love. It wasn't a first kiss. But it was love nonetheless. And the kiss was sweet. And the heart still pounded. And the girl went on.
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#23. I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.
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#24. I want you to know that should something happen to me, don't worry about my body. My soul isn't going to return to it, nor to God. It's flying straight to you, where it knows it can find you, in Lazarevo. I want to be neither with kings nor heroes, but with the queen of Lake Ilmen.
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#25. What strength he once possessed had left his body and gone to a tiny girl with freckles.
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#26. She lived so much inside the balloon of her desires that she didn't want the needles of reality puncturing her carefully crafted, multi-coloured fragile daydream palloncino.
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#27. Pregnant. You come to see me for one weekend, and here
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#28. Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier."
"You're welcome," he whispered back.
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#29. Emotion was pressing hard on her chest, making it difficult for her to breathe. I don't need to breathe now, she thought. I've breathed all my life.
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#30. I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through ...
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#31. Alexander was suffocating under the weight of his love.
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#32. I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.
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#33. And when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I'll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face.
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#34. I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.
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#35. I know what keeping a promise means." "No, you only know what making a promise means," Alexander said. "You are very good at making the promise. It's keeping the promise you have a problem with.
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#36. Ouspensky, do you ever think of how many things you don't know?"
Ouspensky laughed. "I like the beginning already".
"Think of how many things you stumble to and say, how should I know?"
"I never say that, sir" said Ouspensky. "I say, how the fuck should I know?
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#37. I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.
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#38. I didn't know how to live my life, and suddenly I was thrust into it and had no choice but to live it.
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#39. But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans, and even America, and crossed the street for Tatiana Metanova.
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#40. He sent you to redeem me, to comfort me, and to heal me - and that's just so far, he added with a smile.
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#41. These three things:the smell of Shepelevo, the smell of the Metro and the taste of creme brulee ice cream. The essence of my childhood in Russia.
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#42. But I'm telling you, something happens to beautiful people. They think that something extra is owed to them by life, by God, by all the people around them. They think their life has to be better, more dramatic, happier - in color, not black and white.
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#44. The sponge of my heart had been filled up sometime last evening and had begun to drip.
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#45. Tatiana had always thought she would not make a very good Communist. She liked Mikhail Zoshchenko's stories too much.
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#46. They say, he's mine, and you say, all right, all right, he's yours, of course, take him. Nothing matters to me at all. Not me, not my food, not my bread, not my life, and not him either, nothing matters to me." "I ,Tatiana, fight for nothing
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#47. You sweet thing," he murmured. "You're the sweetest thing. I don't know what to do, what to do, Tania." He kissed her lips
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#48. Tatiana heard Alexander say, "Don't bother with shots. Pour mine straight into a glass." "Good man," said Papa, pouring him a glass.
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#49. Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.
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#51. In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier.
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#52. Harry nearly prayed it wasn't one of her friends who smelled like the beach and books and brine. He inhaled when they stopped for the light, and was simultaneously relieved and agitated to realize, no, it was her.
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#53. He yanked up a couple of mushrooms. "Tania, can we eat these?"
Taking them out of his hands and throwing them back on the ground, Tatiana said, "Yes. But we will only be able to eat them once.
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#54. The struggle doesn't end just because you know the way. That's when it's only beginning.
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#55. Shura ... are you ... in love with me?"
"Turn to me," Alexander said. She turned. "Tatia, I worship you. I'm crazy in love with you. I want you to marry me.
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#56. Tania, you are my miracle, you know that, don't you? You are the one God send me to give me faith.-He paused- He sent you to redeem me, to confort me, and to heal me-and that's just so far.
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#57. Tatiana hugged him and said, "And here's mine: 'Honey, what do you prefer - my beautiful body or my beautiful face?'"
"Your sense of humor," returned Alexander, holding her to him until she couldn't breathe.
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#58. You're to need a lot more strength when you hear what I'm about to you
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#61. Why do you enjoy torturing yourself? Do you feel life has been too good to you?"
Tatiana stared at him. "Life has," she said slowly, "been too good to me.
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#62. Slightly less time than it takes one woman to make one life, they managed to snuff out a million and a half lives.
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#63. Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?
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#64. He heard bombs exploding like fireworks, and as if in a dream his father's face flashed before him, wanting to know what Alexander was doing near death's door before it was his time. He said, Dad, I'm going for her.
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#65. If there is God, I thought ... Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh ... " "Tatiasha ... isn't it nice to know there is a God?
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#66. If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.
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#67. Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.
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#68. Mankind has never invented a weapon that they did not use sooner or later.
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#69. She hadn't meant to do it. Falling this crashingly in love with Spencer didn't take Lily by accident. It took her by storm.
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#70. How do you manage?" she asked in a low voice. "How do you manage to carry your weapon, to stand guard, to go and fight, to be strong for all of us?"
"I give you," said Alexander, glancing at her, "what you need most from me.
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#71. To lead a life so wholly happy, so wholly unexamined that she could be dying, could be betrayed, could be besieged on all sides and never even know it.
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#72. Open your eyes, soldier," Tatiana said fondly, caressing his face."Are you hungry?"
"I was hungry," Alexander said. "But you fed me." His body was shaking underneath his sheet.
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#74. It wasn't this soldier's uniform that affected her, and it wasn't his looks. It was the way he had stared at her from across the street, separated from her by ten meters of concrete, a bus, and the electric wires of the tram line.
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#75. Do you need me to com ewith you? She'll need a stretcher," Kashnikov said.
"No she won't," said Alexander. "iI'll carry her myself.
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#76. We thought the hard part was over - but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you're all busted up inside and out - there is nothing harder.
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#77. I just don't know how I'm going to survive you, Tatiana.
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#78. He hugged her. "Be strong for me, Tatiana," Alexander said hoarsely. "Save yourself for me." "That's what I do, Shura," Tatiana said. "I save myself for you." Alexander bent to her, but she couldn't even look up. He kissed the top of her hat. They held on for a few more seconds.
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#79. Be my comfort, come away with me. Rise up and come away, my beloved.
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#80. And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.
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#81. How instant it was, desire. It was like a bomb exploding, fragmenting and igniting all her nerve endings.
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#82. Tatiana: I found my true love on Ulita Saltykov-Schedrin, while I sat on a bench eating ice cream.
Alexander: You didn't find me. You weren't even looking for me. I found you.
Long pause.
Tatiana: Alexander, we're you ... looking for me ?
Alexander: All my life.
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#83. He soaped her like he loved her, held her like he loved her, loved her like he loved her.
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#84. I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.
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#85. I walked into my dream and kept walking with my Leningrad in front of me and behind me and all around me. I wasn't carrying Russia with me. It was carrying me.
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#86. Everyone feels that way, that we will never stop loving someone, that we will never love anyone else, that we can never feel more than we do right now, but yet... we do, somehow, stop loving. We do get over it. Don't we? We have to. We must. Otherwise, how could we go on?
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#87. Who said memory is kind? Memory is merciless. My father was right. 'All the things you want to remember, Paullina, I want to forget'.
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#88. Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him.
Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.
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#89. Do I think she has forgotten me; found a new life? Assumed that I was dead, accepted that I was dead. Alexander shrugged. I think about it all the time. I live inside my heart. But what can I do? I have to move toward her.
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#90. A good man has as much chance of dying as a bad one. Maybe more so.
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#91. We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.
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#92. Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.
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#93. They came with their children, for no one left the children behind - it was for the children they had come, wanting to give them the halls of American, the streets, the seasons, the New York of America.
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#96. The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.
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#98. If she breathed, a part of her would touch a part of him. Tatiana was too overwhelmed to speak, as her intense feelings dropped into the brightly lit well inside her.
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#99. When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.
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#100. What a prison you have set up for me with your first love."
She put her arms tighter around him and said teasingly, "Oh, so the first love part you believe, but the first kiss part you have a problem with? What kind of girl do you think I am?"
"The nicest girl," he whispered.
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