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I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.
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war
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otma
romanovs
russian-revolution
pretending
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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. ..
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romanovs
tsar-nicholas
russian-revolution
royalty
self
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I cross myself and close my eyes. Where we go next, we go together.
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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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romanovs
tsar-nicholas
russian-revolution
royalty
russia
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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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war
exile
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otma
romanovs
russian-revolution
traveling
russia
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You may be afraid, but you may not let your fear chase you away from what must be done.
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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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sadness
the-romanovs
tsar-nicholas-ii
otma
russian-revolution
home
russia
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Sounds buzz around me, and I'm sure the painted dragonflies have come loose from the frieze on our walls to flap their wings in my ears, making my skin prickle and crawl as tides of sickness wash me away.
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I'd like to know how anyone can write the truth about us if we've never met.
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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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war
otma
romanovs
tsar-nicholas
russian-revolution
russia
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Sarah Miller |
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All her life she had longed to breach that pale and hazy boundary between enough and plenty.
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I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive.
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life
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Though Wilder blamed her family's departure from Kansas on "blasted politicians" ordering white squatters to vacate Osage lands, no such edict was issued over Rutland Township during the Ingallses' tenure there. Quite the reverse is true: only white intruders in what was known as the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma were removed to make way for the displaced Osages arriving from Kansas. (Wilder mistakenly believed that her family's cabin was loca..
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How different it must feel to be a man: built solid through, with everything beneath the skin belonging solely to yourself. Did he ever envy what she could take into herself, how much she could contain? Could he comprehend all it meant for a woman to hold herself open for her husband, her children?
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When the windowpanes start to turn from black to gray, my sisters cradle themselves around me, rocking me like the sea until I can taste the salt of our tears
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vista no wider than their own sunbonnets.
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A woman can resolve that, whatever happens, she will not speak till she can do it in a calm and gentle manner,
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Be thankful for what is given. Caroline heard the words in her mother's voice. No matter if it is not enough, be thankful.
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Olga sits on the carpet in front of her shelves with stacks of books scattered around her, struggling to pick between her old favorites. She's all bent over, like a puppet without a hand inside it.
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it was not going she dreaded--only leaving.
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we must all learn to do things we don't want to do. You may be afraid, but you may not let your fear chase you away from what must be done.
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All our luxuries won't keep some men from dying -- it can only be a matter of time until I see it happen -- but in our lazaret death will creep silently onto the operating table or nestle between clean sheets.
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It was not a sack, but rather a circle of denim that would spread itself flat with the cord fully unlaced. Seven deep pockets, each holding one color, pinwheeled from a center humped with plain cuttings of flannel, buckram, and the like.
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Why does everyone have to be so cool all the time? And also why do white people always have to act like black people to avoid looking like dorks?
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life
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Incredible that the best route to winning friends is not necessarily kindness or flattery, but letting them know you won't tolerate their bullshit.
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life
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How many miles had they come? Less than halfway, and already Caroline had the sense that a separation such as this could put more than miles between folks, could right this minute be working changes she might not be entirely conscious of and might never realize at all unless she and Eliza saw each other again.
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Perfect silence is a safe resort, when such control cannot be attained.
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A woman can resolve that, whatever happens, she will not speak till she can do it in a calm and gentle manner, she recited to herself as she waited for the flare of temper to ebb. Perfect silence is a safe resort, when such control cannot be attained.
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I don't see how sugar could make that cornbread any sweeter than the prints of your hands already have.
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it was as if she believed the special things they'd so enjoyed together should not be enjoyed apart.
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Author's Note Caroline is a marriage of fact and Laura Ingalls Wilder's fiction. I have knowingly departed from Wilder's version of events only where the historical record stands in contradiction to her stories. Most prominently: Census records, as well as the Ingalls family Bible, demonstrate that Caroline Celestia Ingalls was born in Rutland Township, Montgomery County, Kansas on August 3, 1870. (Wilder, not anticipating writing a sequel ..
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Like most girls, I want a lot. Fame and fortune. Equal rights. Shoes no one else has. But I'd trade all that in for the perfect guy. (Don't tell me there's something wrong with that. I don't know of a single person who doesn't spend most of her time thinking about love.) Anyway, ever since I could think, I have been imagining and reimagining the exact sort of boy I want to love and who would love me back. Basically, I imagine someone who ha..
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women
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Guys are always confused by how soft and sentimental they are.
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men
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This process is like starting a fitness regimen for the brain. At the beginning, your muscles burn a little. But over time and with repetition, you become stronger, and the improvements you see in yourself can be remarkable. Becoming a better thinker, just like becoming a better athlete, requires practice. We challenge you to feel the burn.
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Their trust in her was built of thousands upon thousands of moments already past. She was Ma, and that in itself was enough.
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Why doesn't Sunday ever wait until tired?
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she were going to let her vexation flare outward, she would have done better to put her foot down with Charles than singe the girls. Then at least it would have served some purpose. Nor could she simply swallow her ire and leave the child beneath her apron to pickle in such brine. She had charge over their moods, and she would not squander it.
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If people would only do me justice that is all I ask, but it seems as if every word I have uttered has been distorted and such a false construction placed on it that I am bewildered. I can't understand it. --Lizzie Borden
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Nor did she know which of them to reach for first. She had not arms enough to shelter them both at once. Laura was still so little, but Mary was plainly smothering in her own fear. It did not seem fair that each could have only half of her, nor that her heart should favor one side of her chest. Not since Laura was newly born had Caroline felt so keenly that she might not be mother enough for two. And soon there would be a third. The thought..
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in the community were concerned about her designs.
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Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:30-31
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Time, Caroline decided, could be trusted to measure the distance between meals, and nothing else. But a mile was always a mile, no matter how long it took to traverse. Days spent on the road were best measured in miles.
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Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. - Matthew 7:7
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Ever after she lived alongside the knowledge that nothing on this earth could protect her completely.
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