Aleksandr Voinov Quotes

Let me live. Keep me alive. Both sentences so close in English, but very different meaning.

You'd be quite sane and well-adjusted if your family had happened to somebody else

If you'd lie with scorpions, you need a taste for poison.

Hatred had blossomed from the vine of contempt in his heart, flowers of dark, grim splendor.

Unplayed sound is like unspoken words.

A gentle, warm, sweet pain spreads through my chest at those words.

One touch from you ... ," water coated his lips, gathered in thick drops on his dark lashes, "makes me feel more than a whole goddamned orgy.

Half of love is restraint. Patience and respect. Don't waste your time on the unworthy.

I've only ever really been afraid of the fear, but right now, I fear nothing.

Dan. His. Partner. Comrade. Lover. His again.

This way, at least, we get to meet and kill interesting people.

To love you is to love water that either parches the throat by its absence or drowns me with its anger!

The leopard is a cruel lover. His tenderness breaks the gazelle's heart.

Take me on R&R, aye? Back to where we were before, or a similar place. Sea, sky, sun, and sex 24/7. Deal?' ... 'Make that 12/7 - getting old.

The very thing that makes him a great killer makes him very much unsuitable for anything else.

Kendras licked his lips. "Your Highness."
The officer laughed."You make that sound dirty.

Not ... good." Stefano pressed his lips together.
"Okay. Don't speak I'll touch you, okay?"
"You do," Stefano answered. You do touch me.

The past would always be part of the present, but at least that was true for both sides: the good and the bad.

It's hard to know a truth when you've never encountered one.

Following orders is right. Giving orders for the wrong reasons isn't.

Holy shit, you're the most accomplished stalker I've ever met."
"It's not stalking if you like it.

I love you more than I can say, than I can even think and what you give me takes my breath away, but breathing is overrated when I can kiss you.

Tell me why I shouldn't shoot you," Stefano murmured. Low, intimate, just between them.
"Fun ... would be over too fast?

If you're just a soldier...what am I?"
"Just a king.

More weapons hidden on his body than hallelujah-singing angels, dangling from a Christmas tree.

All paradises have gates," Falchi said. "You'd wonder why God made Paradise with an exit if he didn't anticipate having to use it eventually.

A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story.

... and then showed Owen the reservation. Four people.
"But we're only two," Owen said.
"Yeah, but my ego needs more space than that.

Ask me again when you're inside me, and I might even whisper the truth.

Spencer: "Based on the number of drinks?"
Nick: "Based on the number of licks.

I want a writer to trust my intelligence. After all, I trust her/his skill to entertain me.

He was doing Tony's dirty work, in a way - like Tony had done his in New York. One hand washing the other, neither of them getting clean.

For me, he can walk on water, dance in the clouds. I know he can't, really, but what he can and can't do pales into nothing when I look at him.

What do you want from me?"
"Own up to it. I can live with a cheater, but not with a coward.

Your father's impressive.'He's a scary motherfucker, but we get along well.

Sometimes history is just an excuse for incompetence at getting along with each other.

What sins I commit, I commit them in the open.

I think it sometimes takes me a while, but I end up making good decisions at some point. Pretty much when I have exhausted all other options.

Make that cage golden, it's still a fucking cage."
"Wel , in the absence of other options, gold will have to do.

History is nothing but good people dying for the wrong reasons.
(Graukar)

He could sense Kshar underneath, and he knew he'd be able to sense him in whatever body. Unchanged, genuinely him.

"There is only one thing I want to be part of. You."

You learn the wisest lessons from your enemy. If you live.

You're seriously in love, you know that? It's a great feeling, unless it hurts like a bitch.

I want to learn his body, find every pleasure it's hiding. All this reverence and simple awe I feel when I touch him, feel his breath brush my skin.

You make me forget who I'm not.

I don't want to be one of many stations you pass through." Paused, "I want to be the central station." He fell silent.

Lately, the thought of tomorrow is like the thought of a hundred years into the future. Who can imagine that Germany will still exist?

All men die, Kendras. Better get used to it. And then fight until the end, with every breath, every heartbeat, every single, last thought.

You're better than the mountains, you know. Murmured against Vadim's lips.

In the end, this armor is my skin. If it is damaged, I am damaged.

Love can be like a commanding officer. It's unfair, random, cruel, but it gets you through the war, somehow, gets you where you have to be. (Vadim)

Our scars tell our suffering, not our weakness.
(Graukar)

I'd meant to seduce him into my bed but he seduced me into his life.

Once you know what you want, you can make the rest happen

He told it as he saw it. His way of lying was to remain silent.

Lion has his claws already sharpened and is ready to go.

Men kill you, but women eviscerate you first.

No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.

You seem to be the one for firsts," his breath caught, "and lasts and always.

He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed underneath his skin.

It was easier being strong when another man was strong enough to be weak.

I try not to think of the future. What we have now is good. Any mlre of this is just a bonus. (Sergei)

You'd be the first enemy that ever got shaved by Spetsnaz, and not in the way we mean 'shaving'." As in, cut throat.
"Hoo-fucking-ray.

Love as inevitable as death.

You ... ." just you, always you. My russian Cu**, my enemy, my comrade, my prisoner, my gaoler and my life. Words unthinking. "Love ... ... you.

It's really rather simple.' Dan took the refilled glass, 'I love Vadim.

Train as if you had to bring the horse down, not the rider. Fight bulls, not men, and men won't best you.

I like men with weaknesses, his father had said. I can buy them. Men without weaknesses I have to kill.

I sit, smoking, my head against the cool comfort of the fighter plane's wheel, its wing shielding but never embracing me. I'm a cold nestling tonight.

To take the measure of a man, watch not how he treats his friends, watch how he treats a conquered foe.

You're my home. I will find you.

Arousal is a fairly complex thing. Many people masturabate when they're bored, not because they're aroused. (Dima)