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“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
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“I'd like to know how anyone can write the truth about us if we've never met.”
― The Lost Crown
― The Lost Crown

“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.”
― The Lost Crown
― 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.”
― The Lost Crown
― The Lost Crown

“I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.”
― The Lost Crown
― The Lost Crown

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