We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together. — 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
The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Tatiana lived for that evening hour with him that propelled her into her future and into the barely formed, painful feelings that… — 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
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
“He is lying on dirty straw. He has been beaten so many times, his body is one bloodied bruise; he is filthy,… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“After two weeks came the first letter from Alexander. Tatiasha, Can there be anything harder than this? Missing you is a physical… — 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
