Paullina Simons Quotes - Page 3

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• Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana

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• Tatia: I think its too big to fit

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  Thinking, Fit, Bigs

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• Tatiana, I love you. Do you hear me? I love you like I’ve never loved anyone in my whole life. Now, get up. For me, Tatia. For me, please get up and go take care of your sister. Go on. And I’ll take care of you.” His lips kissed her cheek.

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  Love You, Goes On, Care

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• Alexander tilted his head and kissed her deeply on the lips. He let go of her hands, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, pressing herself against him. They kissed as if in a fever... they kissed as if the breath were leaving their bodies.

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  Letting Go, Hands, Leaving

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• Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.

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  Fighting, Two, Could Have Been

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• We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.

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  Summer, Garden, June

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• Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

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  Daughter, Mother, Age

  Paullina Simons (2004). “Lily”

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• Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days, of the hat in his hands, white toothed, peaceful, laughing, languid, stunning Alexander, had he been left far behind? Well, Tatiana supposed that was only right. For Alexander believed his Tatiana of once was gone, too. The swimming child Tatiana of the Luga, of the Neva, of the River Kama. Perhaps on the surface they were still in their twenties, but their hearts were old.

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  Summer, Children, Heart

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• I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

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  Writing, Years, Wish

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• I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

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  Thinking, United States, Way

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• There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

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  Book, Heart, Thinking

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• Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life.

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  Summer, Falling In Love, Love You

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• With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

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  Writing, Mean, Forget You

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• Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.

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  Soldier, Alive, Welcome

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• Shura, I’m yours. You may not like it today, you may not want it tonight, you may wish for it all to be different now, but it remains, and I remain, as always, only yours. Nothing can change that. Not your wrath, your fists, your body or your death.

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  Wrath, Wish, Different

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• You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

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  Writing, Mind, Care

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• When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

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  Growing Up, Book, Favourite

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• Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

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  Despair, Body, Shattered

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• Tatiana...you and I had only one moment..." said Alexander. "A single moment in time, in your time and mine...one instant, when another life could have still been possible." He kissed her lips. "Do you know what I'm talking about?" When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street. "I know that moment," whispered Tatiana.

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  Ice Cream, Talking, Soldier

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• Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.

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  Pain, Tree, Growing

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• He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through her teeth, tears streaming down her face, "for your brave and indifferent face, Alexander!" She groaned in pain. "Not for your brave and indifferent heart.

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  Pain, Heart, Brave

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• Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

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  Pay, Willing, Asks

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• Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask: what do you love? ... I know who I am, she thought, taking his hand and turning to the altar. I am Tatiana. And I believe in, and hope for, and love Alexander for life.

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  Believe, Who I Am, Hands

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• If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.

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  Ifs, I Can

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• And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

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  Sacrifice, Giving, Great Things

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