Paullina Simons quotes

Alexander, were you looking for me? (Paullina Simons)
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? View quote
Paullina Simons
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! View quote
Paullina Simons
I wish I could spend six years writing one novel. View quote
Paullina Simons
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. View quote
Paullina Simons
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. View quote
Paullina Simons
When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books. View quote
Paullina Simons
Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow. View quote
Paullina Simons
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. View quote
Paullina Simons
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. View quote
Paullina Simons
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)
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. View quote
Paullina Simons
.... 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. View quote
Paullina Simons
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. View quote
Paullina Simons
I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman. View quote
Paullina Simons
The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have. View quote
Paullina Simons
Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together. View quote
Paullina Simons
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. View quote
Paullina Simons
If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything. View quote
Paullina Simons
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. View quote
Paullina Simons
This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me. (Paullina Simons)
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. View quote
Paullina Simons
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. View quote
Paullina Simons
Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart. View quote
Paullina Simons
He is just protective over me-” "Not protective, Tania. Consumed. View quote
Paullina Simons