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The world was so beautiful in those days, Annika. The music, the flowers, the scent of pines..."
"It still is," said Annika. "Honestly, it still is.
...more
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― The Star of Kazan
― The Star of Kazan
“
Yet for a moment it seemed to him that the men who had dragged marble from Italy and porphyry from Portugal, who had ransacked the jungle for its rarest woods and paid their millions to build this opulent and fantastical theatre, had done so in order that a young girl with loose brown hair should move across its stage, drawing her future from its empty air.
”
― A Company of Swans
― A Company of Swans
