Aleksandr Voinov

“Men kill you, but women eviscerate you first.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“You're my home. I will find you.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“Dan. His. Partner. Comrade. Lover. His again.”

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“Right there with yours.”

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“You’re as close to a fucking home as I get.”

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“You make me forget who I'm not .”

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“What sins I commit, I commit them in the open.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“Unplayed sound is like unspoken words.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“Lion has his claws already sharpened and is ready to go.”

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“If you're just a soldier...what am I?" "Just a king.”

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“You’re better than the mountains, you know.” Murmured against Vadim’s lips.”

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“He told it as he saw it. His way of lying was to remain silent.”

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“A gentle, warm, sweet pain spreads through my chest at those words.”

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“What do you want from me?" "Own up to it. I can live with a cheater, but not with a coward.”

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“In the end, this armor is my skin. If it is damaged, I am damaged.”

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“More weapons hidden on his body than hallelujah-singing angels, dangling from a Christmas tree.”

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“I like men with weaknesses, his father had said. I can buy them. Men without weaknesses I have to kill.”

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“A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story.”

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“He could sense Kshar underneath, and he knew he'd be able to sense him in whatever body. Unchanged, genuinely him.”

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“Does a man work harder for being unhappy, unfulfilled? Is he less dedicated to his job, if he is allowed to commit…

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“All paradises have gates,” Falchi said. “You’d wonder why God made Paradise with an exit if he didn’t anticipate having to use…

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“To take the measure of a man, watch not how he treats his friends, watch how he treats a conquered foe.”

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“You….” just you, always you. My russian Cu**, my enemy, my comrade, my prisoner, my gaoler and my life. Words unthinking. “Love……you.”

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“He was doing Tony’s dirty work, in a way—like Tony had done his in New York. One hand washing the other, neither…

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“Dan's voice was rough and low as he murmured against Vadim's lips. 'I hate you, Russkie.' No. He didn't, but he couldn't…

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“I’d die for you, Dan. No questions asked.” “No, Vadim. No.” Dan’s dark eyes were unforgivingly intense. “You must not die for…

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“Vadim felt Dan’s breath against his chest, shifted his legs to allow him to lie close, and pushed a fold of the…

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“I’ve never woken to another’s body in the same bed, not since I was a child. There is something about it that…

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“No rules. No Revision. No Doctrine up here. Dizzying. He could be free if he wanted. Among enemies. He could stay here…

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“Once upon a time, Dan had hated that body, smashed it, kicked it, beat it into a bleeding pulp, but now he…

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“The savagery of the picture strange and alluring, Frank smeared with blood and absolutely at ease. Barbarian, primitive, visceral; if Tony had…

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“Never realized how much you might have been hurt, or worried...you know. Others. Until I found out how fucking painful it is…

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“… I agree with two things: the steppe is wide—even though I’ve never been there, and the mountains, fuck, yes, the mountains…

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“If I touched you, that’d be it.” Dan shook his head, “Damn, how the fuck am I going to make you understand?”…

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“Right now he was nothing but a physically hurt man who had been through hell and back, clinging to his promise. “We…

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“Sergei remembered well how unsettled Nikishin had been by the arm and leg that day. Then, it had made him sneer inwardly,…

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“Silvio said with a fond smile. "That was when I knew you meant it." "Meant what?" "That you care about me." Silvio…

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“Vadim swallowed, felt his throat too tight to move, then, still staring at the bottle, smelling the desert and Dan, and himself,…

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“You broke me up there in the mountains. You cracked something in my head, I don’t know. I have never been obsessed…

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“Hey, comrade,” Dima said, tone, choice of words, everything exactly as it would have been in the eighties, in that forsaken country.…

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