I Was Anastasia Quotes

“This is how the human heart beats, a twisted staccato of love and envy, anger and relief.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“As women we are taught that bravery and valor exist in the grand gestures. We believe that kindness is weakness and arrogance is the same as courage. But it is not so. Sometimes restraint proves the mettle of a man’s heart more accurately.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“Taking a woman by force makes a man no better than the rooster in Tobolsk. It simply makes him an animal.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. —SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“The thing Anna has always hated most about being a small woman is the disadvantage she has in situations like this. People assume they can touch you, pat you, shake your hand without permission. They assume that if your size is little more than that of a child, you must be one. That you can be talked down to or coerced. It is hard for a small person to be intimidating or to be taken seriously. This lack of stature has forced Anna to develop other skills through the years: to sharpen her wit, to treat her tongue like a blade and her mind like a whetstone.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“Virginia in August feels very much to Anna as though she has taken up residence directly in the white-hot center of Satan’s armpit.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“Armenian”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“I am Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg.” “Duke?” “Well, prince, really, but that sounds awfully pretentious, doesn’t it? Please, call me Frederick.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“The longer she has known Frederick, the more he amazes her. His list of talents has always staggered her: historian, archeologist, genealogist, philologist, and linguist. But more than that, he has been her friend, her protector, and her defender. He is impetuous, energetic, unrelenting, and utterly devoted. Now, she learns, he also happens to be one hell of an oarsman.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“In 1918 he was a prisoner of war being held in Ekaterinburg in the basement of the Ipatiev House. He was an eyewitness to the slaughter of the entire Romanov family and can prove, definitively, that Anastasia Romanov is dead.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“in German courtrooms the witness is only sworn in after giving testimony and usually only if the testimony is considered highly relevant or if the justices are trying to catch a witness perjuring himself.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“where she chooses a hand-painted icon of Saint Anna of Kashin—holy protector of women—and places it in his hands.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. —JOHN F. KENNEDY”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“We can only know that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. —RUDYARD KIPLING, THE COLLECTED WORKS”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“You are angry with me not because I was desperate and broken and wanted more from my life, but because it was just so easy leading you to water. You wanted to believe that I was Anastasia.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“As women we are taught that bravery and valor exist in the grand gestures. We believe that kindness is weakness and arrogance is the same as courage. But it is not so. Sometimes restraint proves the mettle of a man's heart more accurately.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“Overcome with exhaustion and fury, Anna grabs the closest thing she can find and throws it at Prince Frederick.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“She has been many things through the years, but helpless is not one of them.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“This is how the human heart beats, a twisted staccato of love and envy, of anger and relief.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.—SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“say.” Anna”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“How did I get here?” Anna sighs, already knowing the answer. She has gotten here, she has survived, by always doing the thing that needs to be done.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia

“My appointment isn’t until ten o’clock. Can’t a woman take a walk and get breakfast in peace?” “You didn’t leave a note. I was worried.” “You needn’t be.” Frederick gives her a tight-lipped smile of reassurance. And then he tries to distract her. “Dominique bought you a new dress. She sent me to find you. She wants to make sure it fits.”
― Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia