Paullina Simons Quotes

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• I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.

  Paullina Simons

  Love You, Men, Amazing Man

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• 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

  Wall, Night, White

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• We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.

  Paullina Simons

  Loneliness, Lucky, World

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• Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.

  Paullina Simons

  Memories, Enemy, Comfort

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• There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

  Paullina Simons

  Fighting, Giving, Battle

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• Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.

  Paullina Simons

  Love Is, Knowing, Hungry

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• ....and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I’ll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face.

  Paullina Simons

  Eye, Faces, Gorgeous

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• And then, because she was Tatiana and because she couldn’t help herself, and because he wouldn’t have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms.

  Paullina Simons

  Arms, Way, Helping

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• Please don't die," she whispered. "I don't think I can bury you. I already buried everyone else." "How can I die," Alexander said, his voice breaking, "when you have poured your immortal blood into me?

  Paullina Simons

  Thinking, Blood, Voice

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• This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.

  Paullina Simons

  Years, Months, Minutes

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• The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

  Paullina Simons

  Gone, Idealism, Left

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• Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.

  Paullina Simons

  Light, Darkness, Deserve

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• Shura...are you...in love with me?" "Turn to me," Alexander said. She turned. "Tatia, I worship you. I'm crazy in love with you. I want you to marry me.

  Paullina Simons

  Crazy, Love You, Worship You

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• Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.

  Paullina Simons

  Heart, June, Broken

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• I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through.

  Paullina Simons

  Love You, Night, Worship You

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• Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you, now on top of you with this scourge marks, and you, who used to love me, who was sympathized, internalized, normalized everything, you are not allowed to turn away from me....this is what I am going to look like until the day I die. I can't get any peace from you ever unless you find away to make peace with this. Make peace with me. Or let me go for good.

  Paullina Simons

  Mother, Men, Russia

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• When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.

  Paullina Simons

  Ice Cream, Soldier, Saws

  Paullina Simons (2009). “The Bronze Horseman”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• Oh Alexander," she said, "what do you want from me..." "Everything!" he whispered fiercely.

  Paullina Simons

  Want, Said, Tatiana Metanova

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• Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.

  Paullina Simons

  Heart, Eye, Please

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• We can’t forget that I owe you my life.” She gazed at him. “We can’t forget that I belong to you.” “I like that sound of that,” Alexander said, hugging her tighter.

  Paullina Simons

  Hug, Sound, Forget

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• Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

  Paullina Simons

  Sorrow, Ghost, Ecstasy

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• But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans, and even America, and crossed the street for Tatiana Metanova.

  Paullina Simons

  War, Sunday, America

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• If there is God, I thought...Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh..." "Tatiasha...isn't it nice to know there is a God?

  Paullina Simons

  Girl, Nice, Making Love

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• Here, take this, she would say, take this, and tell me where he is. Tell me whether he's dead or alive, so I can walk as his widow or his wife. No one would, or could, tell her, and so she continued to cook, and to learn new things all the while searching for an answer among the outcasts. The way he carried his body, the way he walked in my life, Tatiana thought, declared that he was the only man I had ever loved, and he knew it. And until I was alone without him, I thought it was all worth it.

  Paullina Simons

  Men, Wife, Widows

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• Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to the wall, again to the wall, the wall, as ever. Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won't you, and I'll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everyone does. But my innocence is forever gone.

  Paullina Simons

  Wall, Fall, Night

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