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“Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no more than a lemon-colored speck against the sunrise.”

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Book:The Lost Crown

Source: The Lost Crown

“The pair of us are like salt and sugar: such different flavors, but so close in every other way you could never sort us apart once we're together.”

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Book:The Lost Crown

Source: The Lost Crown

“I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am.”

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Book:The Lost Crown

Source: The Lost Crown

“I have been wrong to hide my temper so completely. All this time I have been inadvertently teaching my girls that goodness is the absence of faults. An unattainable goal that can only lead to a lifetime of discouragement. Effortless virtue is a fairy tale, so far as I can tell. The honor is in the struggle.”

Character Virtue

Book:Marmee

Source: Marmee

“I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.”

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Book:The Lost Crown

Source: The Lost Crown

“It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.”

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Book:The Lost Crown

Source: The Lost Crown

“My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.”

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Book:The Lost Crown

Source: The Lost Crown

“Waking up every day and remembering Papa's gone to the front is like biting into a bonbon with nothing in the center.”

Sad Descriptive

Book:Marmee

Source: Marmee

“We should be used to it," Tatiana reasons. "There have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether they were satin ribbons or iron rails.”

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Book:The Lost Crown

Source: The Lost Crown