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Paullina Simons is a Russian-born American writer and the international best-selling author of the novels Tully, Red Leaves, Eleven Hours, The Bronze Horseman, Tatiana and Alexander, Lily and The Summer Garden. Wikipedia  

✵ 1963

Works

The Bronze Horseman
The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons
Tatiana and Alexander
Tatiana and Alexander
Paullina Simons
The Summer Garden
The Summer Garden
Paullina Simons
The Bronze Horseman
The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons
Tatiana and Alexander
Tatiana and Alexander
Paullina Simons
The Summer Garden
The Summer Garden
Paullina Simons
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Famous Paullina Simons Quotes

“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.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“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 book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

“And then, because she was Tatiana and because she couldn’t help herself, and because he wouldn’t have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms.”

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

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

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

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

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Paullina Simons Quotes about love

“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 book The Bronze Horseman

Variant: Ask yourself three questions 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?
Source: The Bronze Horseman (2001)

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

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

“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?”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

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

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Variant: Love is,” she repeated slowly, looking only at Dasha, “when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry
Source: The Bronze Horseman

“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.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Paullina Simons Quotes about life

“Tatiana: "Alexander, were you looking for me?"
Alexander: "All my life.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Variant: Alexander, were you looking for me?"
"All my life.
Source: The Bronze Horseman

“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.”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

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

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

“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.”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

“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.”

Paullina Simons

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

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

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“Alexander tilted his head and kissed her deeply on the lips. He let go of her hands, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, pressing herself against him. They kissed as if in a fever… they kissed as if the breath were leaving their bodies.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

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

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

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

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Paullina Simons Quotes

“Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?"
Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“Please don't die," she whispered. "I don't think I can bury
you. I already buried everyone else."

"How can I die," Alexander said, his voice breaking, "when you
have poured your immortal blood into me?”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“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.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

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

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

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

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.”

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

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

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“I saved you for me.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“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)”

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

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

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“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.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“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.”

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

“Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but
old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“…. 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.”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

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

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

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

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

“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 book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

“Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved
earth and heaven, that which we are, we are—
Unyielding.”

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

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

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

“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 book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

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

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

“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.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“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.”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

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

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

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

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“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 everybody does.

But my innocence is gone forever.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“Tatia: I think its too big to fit”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

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

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“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”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

“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.”

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

“There will be only one standard, the standard of survival at all cost, and it will be up to you to say at what price survival. Hold your head high, and if you are going to go down, go down knowing you have not in any way compromised your soul.
Pulling him by the arm, Babushka said “That’s enough. Tania, you do whatever you have to do to survive, and damn your soul.””

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman (2001)

“That’s the saddest loss of all, to go on for a few weeks, a few days, a night, a minute, and think everything is still all right when the structure you’ve built your life on has crumbled. We should have been mourning you, but instead we made plans, went to work, dreamed, loved, not knowing you were already behind us.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman (2001)

“Alexander, were you looking for me?”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman (2001)

“(Tatiana nervously looked down at the present.)
"Thank you".
Gifts were not something she was used to. Wrapped gifts? Unheard of, even when they came wrapped only in plain brown paper.
"No. Open first. Then say thank you."
She smiled.
"What do I do? Do I take the paper off?"
"Yes. You tear it off."
"And then what?"
"And then you throw it away."
"The whole present or just the paper?" Slowly he said, "Just the paper."
"and but you wrapped it so nicely. Why would I throw it away?"
"It’s just paper."”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

"If it’s just paper, why did you wrap it?"
The Bronze Horseman (2001)

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