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317 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 26, 2016
“You’re not a terrible person, you’re just a man who feels deeply. You want to be loved. To be forgiven.”
“I know it’s her. I’ll always know moya Tanechka – my Tanechka.”
“When I touch you, I want you. And I feel lost.”
“You’re never lost when I’m in the world.”
“It starts with the stare. Ends in blood…”
“I’m the man who will keep you from your god until you remember you’re a devil.”
“It’s true – everything in my world changed when I met Tanechka. She showed me somebody could love me. And then she betrayed me, betrayed the gang. Or seemed to. I felt so wild when I thought she’d turned traitor…yet deep down it felt inevitable, too. I didn’t know she was innocent. And I killed her.”
"You angered Tanechka and then gave her a gun to shoot you with?"And then we have this:
You can't force a flower to bloom, but you can show it the sun.I loved them both with their Russian-ness (that's a real word, btw). The contrast of their slightly stilted English words and thoughts with that of the smooth Americans felt real, and I couldn't get enough of these two. I wished the book hadn't ended.