Paullina Simons Quotes - Page 4

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• I'm not hungry," Alexander whispered. "I'm famished. Watch out for me. Now, don't make a single sound," he said, moving on top of her. "Tania, God....I'll cover your mouth, just like this, and you hold on to me, just like this, and I'm going to-just like this-

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  Moving, Sound, Watches

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

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  Love Is, Return, Said

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

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  Past

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• Open your eyes, soldier,” Tatiana said fondly, caressing his face.“Are you hungry?” “I was hungry,” Alexander said. “But you fed me.” His body was shaking underneath his sheet.

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  Eye, Soldier, Body

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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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• 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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• Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence

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  Silence, Soldier

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

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• Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she was a little girl, she dreamed of a fine world in which a good man walked its winding roads, perhaps somewhere in his wandering soul searching for her.

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  Girl, Children, Men

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

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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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• Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.

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  Father, Son, Knowing

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

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  Writing, Years, Wish

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

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  Want, Ends, This Life

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• I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

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  Stupidity, Moments, Eternity

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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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