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Quotes from One Night in Winter — Simon Sebag Montefiore

born 1965 England

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He hated Genrikh because true possession is to share the fabric of someone else’s life, he decided; it’s about proximity; love as geography.

One Night in Winter (2013)

‘Every love story’s a requiem,’ she told her.

One Night in Winter (2013)

What’s important is not who you love but who loves you.

One Night in Winter (2013)

Heartbreak, he thought, is an agonizing disease that you’re delighted to have.

One Night in Winter (2013)

War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.

One Night in Winter (2013)

Sex fills just a few hours of our entire existence, he realized, and yet those precious minutes count more than months and years of our normal lives.

One Night in Winter (2013)

‘What’s Edith Wharton like?’
‘Just like our own barons and princelings here. Our secret world is just like hers but with one crucial difference—it’s Edith Wharton with the death penalty.’

One Night in Winter (2013)

‘The greatest privilege of childhood’, she said, ‘is to live safely in the present.’

One Night in Winter (2013)

Nikolasha and Rosa had died for the romantic delusion: totalitarian love as reckless melodrama and desperate possession, an orchestra of trumpets and thunderbolts. Now he saw clearly that the real poetry of love was a meandering river, an accumulation of accidents, the momentum of details.

One Night in Winter (2013)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Simon Sebag Montefiore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.