“Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show.”

— Paullina Simons, book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

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