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.

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  Wall, Night, White

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• You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.

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  Heart, Fire, Hands

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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.

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  Loneliness, Lucky, World

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

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  Memories, Enemy, Comfort

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

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  Sorrow, Ghost, Ecstasy

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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.

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  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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• Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life

  Paullina Simons

  Patient, Be Patient, Stills

  Paullina Simons (2009). “The Bronze Horseman”, p.84, Harper Collins

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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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• 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.

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  Fighting, Giving, Battle

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• A bus came. The soldier turned away from her and walked toward it. Tatiana watched him. Even his walk was from another world; the step was too sure, the stride too long, yet somehow it all seemed right, looked right, felt right. It was like stumbling on a book you thought you had lost. Ah, yes, there it is.

  Paullina Simons

  Book, Long, Soldier

  Paullina Simons (2009). “The Bronze Horseman”, p.32, Harper Collins

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

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  Love Is, Knowing, Hungry

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• You have amazing gifts. Don't squander them. Don't give them out meaninglessly, don't abuse them, don't take them for granted. You are the weapon you carry with you till the day you die. -Tatiana and Alexander

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  Giving, Abuse, Weapons

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• I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going

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  Too Much, Sometimes, Burned

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• The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

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  Love You, Greater

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• I'm going to die with Alexander's hand on my face, Tatiana thought. That is not a bad way to die. I cannot move. I can't get up. Just can't. She closed her eyes and felt herself drifting. Through the haze in front of her she heard Alexander's voice. "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.

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  Moving, Love You, Eye

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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.

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  Eye, Faces, Gorgeous

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• Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life.

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  Rivers, Soul, Dawn

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• Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.

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  Heart, Eye, Enough

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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.

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  Arms, Way, Helping

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• I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.

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  Writing, Two, Knowing

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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.

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  Hug, Sound, Forget

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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.

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  War, Sunday, America

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