# Quote — Simon Sebag Montefiore, One Night in Winter

> Nikolasha and Rosa had died for the romantic delusion: totalitarian love as reckless melodrama and desperate possession, an orchestra of trumpets and thunderbolts. Now he saw clearly that the real poetry of love was a meandering river, an accumulation of accidents, the momentum of details.

- Author: [Simon Sebag Montefiore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simon-sebag-montefiore.md)
- Book: [One Night in Winter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simon-sebag-montefiore/one-night-in-winter.md)
- Page: 441
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simon_Sebag_Montefiore#One_Night_in_Winter_(2013)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/simon-sebag-montefiore/one-night-in-winter/nikolasha-and-rosa

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