I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end. — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“To lead a life so wholly happy, so wholly unexamined that she could be dying, could be betrayed, could be besieged on… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
We can’t forget that I owe you my life.” She gazed at him. “We can’t forget that I belong to you.” “I… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“I can't do it," Tatiana said "I can't walk down the streets of our life with you." "I know." They turned back… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“The weary Italian woman nodded at her children behind her. “Where we came from, everybody lives only one kind of life. Alessandro… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Tania, when I found you, I felt for that hour or two we were together - before Dimitri, before Dasha - that… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“they say, he's mine, and you say, all right, all right, he's yours, of course, take him. Nothing matters to me at… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“You know I can’t make her pregnant,” he said. “You know she is lying at least about that, right? After what I’d… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“I told you,” Harry was saying to Ben. “I warned you. As soon as I saw her from distance, do you remember… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“The Field of Mars, June, death, life, white nights, Dasha, Dimitri, the all came… And went. But there Alexander still was, standing… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“That was his moment in Leningrad, on an empty street, when his life became possible—when Alexander became possible. There he stood as… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“There is one moment, a moment in eternity. Before we find out the truth about one another. That simple moment is the… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Tania, I was spellbound by you from the first moment I saw you. There I was, living my dissolute life, and war… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us, Alexander had… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“The feeling he had had all his young life - that he was brought on this earth for something special - had… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Everyone wishes their life were happier.” Lily shook her head. “No. Not like beautiful people. They walk this earth, their chin up… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Slightly less time than it takes one woman to make one life, they managed to snuff out a million and a half… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Father continues to make the vulgar error,” she said, “that to a woman, love is her whole existence.” — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“I didn't know how to live my life, and suddenly I was thrust into it and had no choice but to live… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Why do you enjoy torturing yourself? Do you feel life has been too good to you?” Tatiana stared at him. “Life has,”… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“When I was in Colditz, that impenetrable fortress, whittling away my life, I wanted to know this." "Looks like you're still there,… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Do I think she has forgotten me; found a new life? Assumed that I was dead, accepted that I was dead. Alexander… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“...But I’m telling you, something happens to beautiful people. They think that something extra is owed to them by life, by God,… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Tatiana, I love you. Do you hear me? I love you like I’ve never loved anyone in my whole life. Now, get… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“I don't want to die," whispered Marina. "and not feel just once what you feel." She struggled for her breath. "Just once… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Simply, this is what she believed: she believed that the universe showed each of us certain things, that it made certain things… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Tania,” he whispers, “promise me you won’t forget me when I die.” “You won’t die, soldier,” she says. “You won’t die. Live!… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Tatiana...you and I had only one moment..." said Alexander. "A single moment in time, in your time and mine...one instant, when another… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Now she had words to dull her senses. English words, a new name, and covering it all like a warm blanket, a… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“You think she needs a chaperone?” When they didn’t answer, the nun tutted disapprovingly. “Let me explain something to you, Mrs. Attaviano, and I… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street. — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“You want to know what I thought of in that boat? I thought, I have to stay alive. Tatiasha will never forgive me.” — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she was a… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Alexander: “First we will send the frontovik into the streets with guns. When they are dead, we will send me, with a tank, like… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Have a joke for me Tania," he says, "I could use a joke." "Hmm." She thinks, looks at him, looks to see where Anthony… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
I'm going to die with Alexander's hand on my face, Tatiana thought. That is not a bad way to die. I cannot move. I… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“They came with their children, for no one left the children behind - it was for the children they had come, wanting to give… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
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… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Come on,” he said quietly, bending to her and lifting her whole into his arms. He carried her inside. After setting her down next… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness. — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
