Paullina Simons Quotes - Page 4

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• Do you see the Field of Mars, where I walked next to my bride in her white wedding dress, with red sandals in her hands, when we were kids?” “I see it well.” “We spent all our days afraid it was too good to be true, Tatiana,” said Alexander. “We were always afraid all we had was a borrowed five minutes from now.” Her hands went on his face. “That’s all any of us ever has, my love,” she said. “And it all flies by.” “Yes,” he said, looking at her, at the desert, covered coral and yellow with golden eye and globe mallow. “But what a five minutes it’s been.

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  Kids, Eye, Hands

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

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• We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you’re all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.

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  Live Your Life, Busted, Hardest

  Paullina Simons (2011). “The Summer Garden: A Novel”, p.40, Harper Collins

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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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• 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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• War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

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  War, Lying, Men

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

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  Writing, Years, Wish

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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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• Will you remember that? Anywhere you are, if you can look up and find Perseus in the sky, find that smile, and hear the galactic wind whisper your name, you'll know that it's me, calling for you... calling you back to Lazarevo. (Alexander)

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  Wind, Sky, Names

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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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• Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.

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  Love You, Men

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• The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time that bathed her with the possibilities of the day. In a moment it would all be gone. And in a moment it was. Still...that sun streaking through the room, the distant rumble of buses through the open window, the slight wind. This was the part of Sunday that Tatiana loved most: the beginning.

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  Sunshine, Sunday, White

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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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