The Romanov Conspiracy Quotes

“What was it Chekhov once said? ‘We live for love, and for hope and dreams, and for the small things that please us and for little else.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“What happens in the heart, simply happens. But sometimes real love calls us to a higher duty. We have to do what’s right, and not always what we desire.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“Lenin promised freedom and liberty, and yet I and countless others are in chains. He swore he’d rid this country of the secret police, yet he creates his own. That isn’t a man I can trust.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“And for some reason I thought how potent a creation love is - that although sometimes it exists for just a brief, glorious moment in our lives, the ghost of its giving and taking often weaves such an intricate pattern opon our souls, as delicate as lace, as strong as steel. That its spirit is something far too powerful for us mere humans to understand.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“It's always a question of the human heart, isn't it? How do we live? What do we do? How do we know what's right or wrong? I came here to pray for guidance, I suppose. I feel a little lost, and maybe more than a little afraid.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“it was a case of making an impressionable, mentally ill woman believe that she was Anastasia Romanov. Their deception began with Anna Anderson’s supposed suicide attempt in a Berlin canal, and her amazing story was born.” “Anna Anderson was a decoy?” “Pure and simple. To deflect the world from the truth.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“It took many months of scouring the mental hospitals of Europe, until finally they settled on a suitable candidate. The woman the world eventually came to know as Anna Anderson. She matched their criteria in terms of looks, and certain bodily features, like her ears and feet, that she shared with Anastasia. “Scars were deliberately inflicted on her skull during surgery, to be consistent with wounds Anastasia suffered”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“What was it Freud once said? All depression is caused by the loss of someone’s love.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“In a famous seven-hundred-page judgment, a German court once concluded that there was no way the death of Anastasia could be conclusively proven.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“liars need to have good memories”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“the infamous execution chamber—which was pretty small. Less than four yards by five. I found it incredible that up to twenty-two people were crowded into it for the shootings, half of them with guns blazing. I’m surprised many of the executioners weren’t killed by ricochets.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“Even the written evidence offered by the executioners tells us that. And it ended with Anastasia not being buried with the rest of her family.” Yakov paused. “The DNA experts can speculate all they want, but they still can’t say with absolute certainty that any of the bones later found belonged to her. I doubt they ever will.” I felt dazed. “How can I know that your version of events is true?”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“There are many kinds of love, I think. There’s passionate love, and there’s dutiful love, though often we don’t realize that really they’re just different sides of the same coin.” He pulled up his collar. “And then there’s another kind of love. The kind we can only show by setting someone free.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“not all the bullets penetrated her body where the gems were sewn into her clothing.” The nun nodded. “They saved her from being killed instantly.” She indicated tight columns of gems woven inside the corset lining. “It’s probably why Alexei didn’t die at first. No doubt they were sewn into his clothing, too.” Boyle took the corset and examined the fabric. “Will she make it?”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“One’s missing.” Kazan was livid. He searched the dead faces and saw no sign of Anastasia Romanov. “The conniving little witch is gone.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“Alexei and Anastasia are barely alive. The others are dead,”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“The revolution has decreed that the former tsar, Nicholai Romanov, is guilty of countless bloody crimes against his people and is to be shot.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“whenever we’re offered love, we should accept it. Wherever we encounter tenderness, we should embrace it.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“Whenever we’re offered love, we should accept it … wherever we encounter tenderness, we should embrace it.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“I’m suddenly beginning to wonder if all this war is worth it.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“I’ve heard it said that prayer is sometimes listening to yourself.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“I don’t know that I’m afraid of anything anymore. Once you experience war you can never be the same. You see the world differently.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“always felt like an outsider, ever since I was a child and my family moved around so much. Some people thought I was privileged, maybe even spoiled, but really I wasn’t. I was just lonely, and never truly felt at home anywhere. Until I met Sean. For the first time in my life I felt connected to another human being.” She hesitated, emotion welling in her. “There’s an old Irish saying: ‘May I know you until the end of my days.’ That was how I felt about him.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“I’ve learned enough about human nature to know that behind anger or bitterness or hurt there’s always a wound, or fear, or frustration.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“What was it Chekhov once said? ‘We live for love, and for hope and dreams, and for the small things that please us and for little else.’ It would be pleasant too if the snow was gone and it was spring again.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“The rest, but a small part, is fiction, part of the mosaic of storytelling that a writer must employ to bring life to his tale. But as to which part is truth and which small part is fiction, I will leave that for you to decide.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy

“Many of the characters named in this book existed, as did the shadowy order sometimes known as the Brotherhood of St. John of Tobolsk.”
― Glenn Meade, The Romanov Conspiracy