Paullina Simons Quotes

I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.

All good things come to those who wait.

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.

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

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

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.

Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.

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

Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?

He is just protective over me-” “Not protective, Tania. Consumed.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

He sent you to redeem me, to comfort me, and to heal me—and that’s just so far,” he added with a smile.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana.

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

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.

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!

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

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.

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.

Live as if you have faith,” she said, “and faith shall be given to you.

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

Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana

Tatia: I think its too big to fit

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

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

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.

They had no past. They had no future. They just were.

Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence

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

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.

....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.