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The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

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Paullina Simons
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 1
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St. Petersburg
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Greater
Someone
Power
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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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Tatiana: Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this? Alexander: That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.
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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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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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Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most important, ask yourself, what do you love?
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Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show.
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Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana
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I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.
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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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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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You have to keep your audience in your mind if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!
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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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Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.
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Thank you, she whispered, for keeping yourself alive, soldier. You're welcome, he whispered back.
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Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.
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You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.
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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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Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.
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