“What a prison you have set up for me with your first love.” She put her arms tighter around him and said… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“I found my true love on the banks of the river Kama,” whispered Alexander, staring at her. “I found my true love… — 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
“Love is,” she repeated slowly, looking only at Dasha, “when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Good-bye, and may you… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“She hadn't meant to do it. Falling this crashingly in love with Spencer didn't take Lily by accident. It took her by… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Alexander raised his shaking right hand to his temple, to his lips, to his heart.” — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“What was she thinking?” muttered Alexander, closing his eyes and imagining his Tania. “She was determined. It was like some kind of… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry. — 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
“He didn't think of her individual traits, he didn't think of the details of her hair, or her eyes, or her body.… — 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
“They stared at each other. Every ocean, every river, every minute they had walked together was in their gaze. He said nothing… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have. — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“All grimy and sweaty, Alexander drew her to him, his palms on her back, and bending to her and tilting his head,… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t first love. It wasn’t a first kiss. But it was love nonetheless. And the kiss was sweet. And the heart… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
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.… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman. — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“When he asked isn't it beautiful, my father was seeing his youth, and his youth was beautiful. He closed his eyes and… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
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… — 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
“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
