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’Strength comes from struggle. Each time we big farewell to a piece of ourselves we become different than we were. But each time we rise again in the morning, it’s a victory. Keep your memories. Keep your emotions. Keep your pain Use them. Happiness, contentment, they are dull but persuasive lures. A rosy disposition only means you miss what’s lurking in the trees.’

’Sashenka,’ Marya said, ’you are not incomplete because a piece of your heart is gone. You are you, an entire whole, all on your own. If you have loved and been loved, then you can only be richer for it - you don’t become a smaller version of yourself simply because what you once had is gone.’

Istg if we have a second falling in love montage

‘So, will you kill me?’ Roman asked her, rising to his feet. It was less a request this time than a question. So, will you kill me? as easily as if he’d asked, So, will you be able to sleep tonight? Will you be able to live with all of this? Can you exist in this world as you once did? Will you ever be the same?

This one is not for you, he knew, but please, please, may I borrow her from someone else’s fate? May I have her until her stars change, or mine? May I worship her until I die, and may I give her all of me, for better or worse, or worse, or surely worse?

’Write me a tragedy, Lev Fedorov. Write me a litany of sins. Write me a plague of devastation. Write me lonely, write me wanting, write me shattered and fearful and lost. Then write me finding myself in your arms, if only for a night, and then write it again. Write it over and over, Lev, until we both know the page by heart. Isn’t that a story too?’
’This isn’t the story I wanted for us.’
It never is.’

You’re my brother, and that’s the worst part.

'I love you. I will always love you, I will love you until the day I die-and if you're the one to kill me, then by all means, you should know without a doubt that you will not have turned me away. I will have spent the final beat of my heart loving you, just as I always have. Only you, Masha. Only you, forever, I promise.'

'Why didn't you let me choose you? I would have gone to you, Masha, if you'd asked. You would've only had to ask, and I would have chosen you over everything.'