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We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive ... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.
You are filled with anguish
For the suffering of others.
And no one's grief
Has ever passed you by.
You are relentless
Only to yourself,
Forever cold and pitiless.
But if only you could look upon
Your own sadness from a distance,
Just once with a loving soul -
Oh, how you would pity yourself.
How sadly you would weep.
- Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, poem dedicated to her mother, April 23, 1917
fond," one catty countess recalled, "with diamonds scattered
Books taught me how to think.
...One thing I have noticed, child, is that tyrants are the grandest romantics. They can burn a heretic alive once day, and compose a love sonnet the next.
I dreamed that I was loved. I woke and found it true.
We wanted - no, we needed - to tell our stories, and more importantly, we needed our stories to be heard.