Tatiana Metanova Quotes

• I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.

  Paullina Simons

  Love You, Men, Amazing Man

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• Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Good-bye, and may you find a better life, find comfort again and your breathless smile, and when your beloved face lights up once more at the Western sunrise, be sure what I felt for you was not in vain. Good-bye and have faith, my Tatiana.

  Paullina Simons

  Night, Fire, Light

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• Tatiana said. "Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I'm-" "Blind!", Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood, desolately failing in the battle of her heart. "Oh, Alexander. What do you want from me..." "Everything", he whispered fiercely.

  Paullina Simons

  Heart, Battle, Goes On

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

  Paullina Simons

  Want, Said

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• 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?

  Paullina Simons

  Believe, Three, Knows

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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.

  Paullina Simons

  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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• 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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• 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.” His lips kissed her cheek.

  Paullina Simons

  Love You, Goes On, Care

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• Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask: what do you love? ... I know who I am, she thought, taking his hand and turning to the altar. I am Tatiana. And I believe in, and hope for, and love Alexander for life.

  Paullina Simons

  Believe, Who I Am, Hands

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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.

  Paullina Simons

  War, Sunday, America

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