Paullina Simons Quotes

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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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• I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.

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  Love You, Men, Amazing Man

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

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  Gone, Idealism, Left

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

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  Ice Cream, Soldier, Saws

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

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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?

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  Girl, Nice, Making Love

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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.

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  Love You, Night, Worship You

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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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• In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier.

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  War, Distance, Long

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• All good things come to those who wait.

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  Patience, Monday, Funny Inspirational

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

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  Memories, Enemy, Comfort

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

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  Patient, Be Patient, Stills

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

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• "Alexander, were you looking for me?" "All my life."

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  "The Bronze Horseman". Book by Paullina Simons, 2001.

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• Tania,” he whispers, “promise me you won’t forget me when I die.” “You won’t die, soldier,” she says. “You won’t die. Live! Live on, breathe on, claw onto life, and do not let go. Promise me you will live for me, and I promise you, when you’re done, I will be waiting for you.” She is sobbing. “Whenever you’re done, Alexander, I will be here, waiting for you.

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  Letting Go, Waiting, Soldier

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• You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.

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  Rivers, Mountain, Way To Live

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• I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.

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  Giving, Way, Breaths

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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.

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  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.

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  Wall, Fall, Night

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• Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.

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  Together, Lasts, Letting You Go

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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.

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  Mother, Men, Russia

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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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