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# Paullina Simons

(1963)   Translator   United States

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Paullina Simons is a translator from the United States, best known for *Road to Paradise*.

## Quick Facts About Paullina Simons

Born January 1, 1963

Nationality United States

Profession Translator

Notable works Road to Paradise

Known for The Bronze Horseman

## About Paullina Simons

Paullina Simons is a Russian‑born American writer whose international best‑selling titles include Tully, Red Leaves, Eleven Hours, The Bronze Horseman, Tatiana and Alexander, Lily and The Summer Garden.

##  Quotes by Paullina Simons · Page 6

> [“Have a joke for me Tania," he says, "I could use a joke." "Hmm." She thinks, looks at him, looks to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/have-a-joke-for-me-tania-he-says-i-could-use-a-joke-hmm-she-thinks/)

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[Joke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/joke/)

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> [“Sanchez got the phone call, listened carefully, glanced over at Spencer, in Whittaker's office, having his morning coffee. Hung up the phone,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/sanchez-got-the-phone-call-listened-carefully-glanced-over-at-spencer/)

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[Gaze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gaze/)

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> [“A tall, thin, middle-aged man with a long, gray Jovian beard stood outside the Hermitage Museum with an expression of absolute shattered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/a-tall-thin-middle-aged-man-with-a-long-gray-jovian-beard-stood/)

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[First love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-love/)

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> [“She ate it and cried. Soon, he put the melting ice cream away. "Shura," Tatiana whispered, "darling, forget what should have been.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/she-ate-it-and-cried-soon-he-put-the-melting-ice-cream-away-shura/)

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[Cooking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cooking/)

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> [“in the dark room she sits and in front of her is a plate and on the plate lies a black hunk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/in-the-dark-room-she-sits-and-in-front-of-her-is-a-plate-and-on-the/)

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[Dark room](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dark-room/)

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> [“This was all given to me, he seemed to say. My body, my face, my height, my strength. I did not ask…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/this-was-all-given-to-me-he-seemed-to-say-my-body-my-face-my-height/)

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[Given](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/given/)

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> [Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/alexander-you-broke-my-heart-but-for-carrying-me-on-your-back-for/)

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[Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alexander/)

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> [“That was his moment in Leningrad, on an empty street, when his life became possible—when Alexander became possible. There he stood as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/that-was-his-moment-in-leningrad-on-an-empty-street-when-his-life/)

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[Ice cream](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ice-cream/)

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> [Tatiana...you and I had only one moment..." said Alexander. "A single moment in time, in your time and mine...one instant, when another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/tatiana-you-and-i-had-only-one-moment-said-alexander-a-single-moment/)

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[Another life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/another-life/)

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> [“Alexander speaks. “Anthony, I’m going to tell you something. In 1941, when I met your mother, she had turned seventeen and was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/alexander-speaks-anthony-i-m-going-to-tell-you-something-in-1941-when/)

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[Every day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/every-day/)

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> [Do you see the Field of Mars, where I walked next to my bride in her white wedding dress, with red sandals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/do-you-see-the-field-of-mars-where-i-walked-next-to-my-bride-in-her/)

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[Being true](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/being-true/)

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> [“The iron fettering on the gate read "Arbeit Macht Frei". "What do you think that means?" asked a man from behind them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/the-iron-fettering-on-the-gate-read-arbeit-macht-frei-what-do-you/)

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[Alexander-belov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alexander-belov-5871/)

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> [Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/each-day-brought-just-another-minute-of-the-things-they-could-not/)

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[Behinds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/behinds/)

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> [Up on the roof Tatiana thought about the evening minute, the minute she used to walk out the factory doors, turn her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/up-on-the-roof-tatiana-thought-about-the-evening-minute-the-minute/)

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[Body](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/body/)

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> [“What was she thinking?” muttered Alexander, closing his eyes and imagining his Tania. “She was determined. It was like some kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/what-was-she-thinking-muttered-alexander-closing-his-eyes-and/)

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> [Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/oh-to-be-walking-through-leningrad-white-night-after-white-night-the/)

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[Dawn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dawn/)

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> [“There is one moment, a moment in eternity. Before we find out the truth about one another. That simple moment is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/there-is-one-moment-a-moment-in-eternity-before-we-find-out-the-truth/)

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[Eternity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eternity/)

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> [“The Bronze Horseman would pursue her into her grave. She felt it. Into her eternity, clambering behind her in the night and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/the-bronze-horseman-would-pursue-her-into-her-grave-she-felt-it-into/)

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[Every Minute](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/every-minute/)

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> [“Tania, I was spellbound by you from the first moment I saw you. There I was, living my dissolute life, and war…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/tania-i-was-spellbound-by-you-from-the-first-moment-i-saw-you-there-i/)

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[Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alexander/)

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> [“Deda kissed her on the forehaed. "There are difficult days ahead for all of us. Ahead of you particularly, Tania. You and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/deda-kissed-her-on-the-forehaed-there-are-difficult-days-ahead-for/)

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[Difficult days](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/difficult-days/)

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> [“Everyone wishes their life were happier.” Lily shook her head. “No. Not like beautiful people. They walk this earth, their chin up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/everyone-wishes-their-life-were-happier-lily-shook-her-head-no-not/)

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[Beautiful heart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beautiful-heart/)

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> [“They stared at each other. Every ocean, every river, every minute they had walked together was in their gaze. He said nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/they-stared-at-each-other-every-ocean-every-river-every-minute-they/)

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[Death and dying](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death-and-dying/)

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> [Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/here-i-am-your-one-man-circus-freak-show-having-bled-out-for-mother/)

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[Circus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circus/)

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> [“All she had to do was stay where she was, go on as she was. But there was no Tatiana here. Tatiana…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/all-she-had-to-do-was-stay-where-she-was-go-on-as-she-was-but-there/)

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[Every night](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/every-night/)

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> [“Alexander. Here he is, before he was Tatiana’s, at the age of twenty, getting his medal of valor for bringing back Yuri…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/alexander-here-he-is-before-he-was-tatiana-s-at-the-age-of-twenty/)

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[Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alexander/)

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> [“Mimoo shook her head. “Too sleepy for her maybe, but ideal for her mother, who worries too much. I don’t need excitement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/mimoo-shook-her-head-too-sleepy-for-her-maybe-but-ideal-for-her/)

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[Parenting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/parenting/)

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> [“you know that, don't you? Alexander whispers. I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. I'm sick with you. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/you-know-that-don-t-you-alexander-whispers-i-love-you-i-m-blind-for/)

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[Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alexander/)

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> [“She held the money to her chest and tried to fathom Alexander's heart. He was the man who, a few meters away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/she-held-the-money-to-her-chest-and-tried-to-fathom-alexander-s-heart/)

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[Money](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/money/)

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> [“Harry leaned back, his hat over his inscrutable face. “Well?” Ben nudged him. “Thomas Paine, or a nubile beauty from Sicily?” “Clearly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/harry-leaned-back-his-hat-over-his-inscrutable-face-well-ben-nudged/)

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[World leader](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-leader/)

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> [“Tatiana fretted over him before he left as if he were a five-year-old on his first day of school. Shura, don't forget…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paullina-simons/tatiana-fretted-over-him-before-he-left-as-if-he-were-a-five-year-old/)

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## Paullina Simons by topic

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                        "text": "“Have a joke for me Tania,\" he says, \"I could use a joke.\" \"Hmm.\" She thinks, looks at him, looks to see where Anthony is. He's far in the back. \"Okay, what about this.\" With a short cough she leans into Alexander and lowers her voice. \"A man and his young girlfriend are driving in a car. The man has never seen his girlfriend naked. She thinks he is driving too slow, so they decide to play a game. For every five miles he goes above 50, she will take off a piece of her clothing. In no time at all, he is flying and she is naked. The man gets so excited that he loses control of the car. It veers off the road and hits a tree. She is unharmed but he is stuck in the car and can’t get out. “Go back on the road and get help,” he tells her. “But I’m naked,” she says. He rummages around and pulls off his shoe. “Here, just put this between your legs to cover yourself.” She does as she is told and runs out to the road. A truck driver, seeing a naked crying woman, stops. “Help me, Help me,” she sobs, “My boyfriend is stuck and I can’t get him out.” The Truck driver says, “Miss, if he’s that far in, I’m afraid he’s a goner.”",
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                        "text": "“Sanchez got the phone call, listened carefully, glanced over at Spencer, in Whittaker's office, having his morning coffee. Hung up the phone, got up, went and knocked on the door, asked if he could see Spencer a moment, and lowering his voice said, \"Carl downstairs just called me because someone wants to file a vagrancy report. Spencer slapped him on the back. \"Detective Sanchez, thank you for bringing the particulars of your job description to my attention. Well done. Go to it. Sanchez hemmed and said, \"The young woman says she is Lily Quinn. Specifically asked for me, Carl says. Spencer didn't slap him on the back this time. He stared at Carl and then said, \"All right smart-ass, go back to you desk. \"That's what I thought,\" said Sanchez.”",
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                        "text": "“She ate it and cried. Soon, he put the melting ice cream away. \"Shura,\" Tatiana whispered, \"darling, forget what should have been. Remember all that was.\" \"Tatiasha, babe,\" Alexander whispered, coming back to bed to be covered, \"my one and only wife, forget our age, our splendid youth, forget it all and let our crazy love make us young.”",
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                        "text": "Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the body you destroyed for me, for the son you have given me, for the twenty-nine days we lived like Red Birds of Paradise, for all our Naples sands and Napa wines, for all the days you have been my first and last breath, for Orbeli- I will forgive you.",
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                        "text": "“That was his moment in Leningrad, on an empty street, when his life became possible—when Alexander became possible. There he stood as he was—a young Red Army officer in dissolution, all his days stamped with no future and all his appetites unrestrained, on patrol the day war started for Russia. He stood with his rifle slung on his shoulder and cast his wanton eyes on her, eating her ice cream all sunny, singing, blonde, blossoming, breathtaking. He gazed at her with his entire unknowable life in front of him, and this is what he was thinking… To cross the street or not to cross? To follow her? To hop on the bus, after her? What absolute madness.”",
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                        "text": "Tatiana...you and I had only one moment...\" said Alexander. \"A single moment in time, in your time and mine...one instant, when another life could have still been possible.\" He kissed her lips. \"Do you know what I'm talking about?\" When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street. \"I know that moment,\" whispered Tatiana.",
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                        "text": "“Alexander speaks. “Anthony, I’m going to tell you something. In 1941, when I met your mother, she had turned seventeen and was working at the Kirov factory, the largest weapons production facility in the Soviet Union. Do you know what she wore? A ratty brown cardigan that belonged to her grandmother. It was tattered and patched and two sizes too big for her. Even though it was June, she wore her much larger sister’s black skirt that was scratchy wool. The skirt came down to her shins. Her too-big thick black cotton stockings bunched up around her brown work boots. Her hands were covered in black grime she couldn’t scrub off. She smelled of gasoline and nitrocellulose because she had been making bombs and flamethrowers all day. And still I came every day to walk her home.”",
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                        "text": "Do you see the Field of Mars, where I walked next to my bride in her white wedding dress, with red sandals in her hands, when we were kids?” “I see it well.” “We spent all our days afraid it was too good to be true, Tatiana,” said Alexander. “We were always afraid all we had was a borrowed five minutes from now.” Her hands went on his face. “That’s all any of us ever has, my love,” she said. “And it all flies by.” “Yes,” he said, looking at her, at the desert, covered coral and yellow with golden eye and globe mallow. “But what a five minutes it’s been.",
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                        "text": "“The iron fettering on the gate read \"Arbeit Macht Frei\". \"What do you think that means?\" asked a man from behind them in line. \"Abandon hope all ye who enter here,\" replied Alexander. \"No,\" said Misnoy. \"It means, 'Work will set you free,'\" \"Like I was saying.\" Misnoy laughed. \"This must be a Class One camp. For political prisoners. Probably Sachsenhausen. In Buchenwald, the engraving didn't say that. It was for more serious, more permanent offenders.\" \"Like you?\" \"Like me.\" He smiled pleasantly. \"Buchenwald read, 'Jeden das Seine. To Each His Own.'\" \"The Germans are so fucking inspiring,\" said Alexander.”",
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                        "text": "Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.",
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                        "text": "Up on the roof Tatiana thought about the evening minute, the minute she used to walk out the factory doors, turn her head to the left even before her body turned, and look for his face. The evening minute as she hurried down the street, her happiness curling her mouth upward to the white sky, the red wings speeding her to him, to look up at him and smile.",
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                        "text": "“What was she thinking?” muttered Alexander, closing his eyes and imagining his Tania. “She was determined. It was like some kind of a personal crusade with her,” Ina said. “She gave the doctor a liter of blood for you—” “Where did she get it from?” “Herself, of course.” Ina smiled. “Lucky for you, Major, our Nurse Metanova is a universal donor.” Of course she is, thought Alexander, keeping his eyes tightly shut. Ina continued. “The doctor told her she couldn’t give any more, and she said a liter wasn’t enough, and he said, ‘Yes, but you don’t have more to give,’ and she said, ‘I’ll make more,’ and he said, ‘No,’ and she said, ‘Yes,’ and in four hours, she gave him another half-liter of blood.” Alexander lay on his stomach and listened intently while Ina wrapped fresh gauze on his wound. He was barely breathing. “The doctor told her, ‘Tania, you’re wasting your time. Look at his burn. It’s going to get infected.’ There wasn’t enough penicillin to give to you, especially since your blood count was so low.” Alexander heard Ina chuckle in disbelief. “So I’m making my rounds late that night, and who do I find next to your bed? Tatiana. She’s sitting with a syringe in her arm, hooked up to a catheter, and I watch her, and I swear to God, you won’t believe it when I tell you, Major, but I see that the catheter is attached to the entry drip in your IV.” Ina’s eyes bulged. “I watch her draining blood from the radial artery in her arm into your IV. I ran in and said, ‘Are you crazy? Are you out of your mind? You’re siphoning blood from yourself into him?’ She said to me in her calm, I-won’t-stand-for-any-argument voice, ‘Ina, if I don’t, he will die.’ I yelled at her. I said, ‘There are thirty soldiers in the critical wing who need sutures and bandages and their wounds cleaned. Why don’t you take care of them and let God take care of the dead?’ And she said, ‘He’s not dead. He is still alive, and while he is alive, he is mine.’ Can you believe it, Major? But that’s what she said. ‘Oh, for God’s sake,’ I said to her. ‘Fine, die yourself. I don’t care.’ But the next morning I went to complain to Dr. Sayers that she wasn’t following procedure, told him what she had done, and he ran to yell at her.” Ina lowered her voice to a sibilant, incredulous whisper. “We found her unconscious on the floor by your bed. She was in a dead faint, but you had taken a turn for the better. All your vital signs were up. And Tatiana got up from the floor, white as death itself, and said to the doctor coldly, ‘Maybe now you can give him the penicillin he needs?’ I could see the doctor was stunned. But he did. Gave you penicillin and more plasma and extra morphine. Then he operated on you, to get bits of the shell fragment out of you, and saved your kidney. And stitched you. And all that time she never left his side, or yours. He told her your bandages needed to be changed every three hours to help with drainage, to prevent infection. We had only two nurses in the terminal wing, me and her. I had to take care of all the other patients, while all she did was take care of you. For fifteen days and nights she unwrapped you and cleaned you and changed your dressings. Every three hours. She was a ghost by the end. But you made it. That’s when we moved you to critical care. I said to her, ‘Tania, this man ought to marry you for what you did for him,’ and she said, ‘You think so?’ ” Ina tutted again. Paused. “Are you all right, Major? Why are you crying?”",
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                        "text": "Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to the wall, again to the wall, the wall, as ever. 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 everyone does. But my innocence is forever gone.",
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                        "text": "“The Bronze Horseman would pursue her into her grave. She felt it. Into her eternity, clambering behind her in the night and in the day, in every hour of sorrow, in every minute of weakness, in darkness, in light, through all of America he would be rattling at her heels, the way he had been relentlessly rattling at her through the past eleven hundred days, through the past eleven hundred nights, right into her maddening dust. How much longer for Tatiana's life?”",
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                        "text": "“Tania, I was spellbound by you from the first moment I saw you. There I was, living my dissolute life, and war had just started. My entire base was in disarray, people were running around, closing accounts, taking money out, grabbing food out of stores, buying up the entire Gostiny Dvor, volunteering for the army, sending their kids to camp—” He broke off. “And in the middle of my chaos, there was you!” Alexander whispered passionately. “You were sitting alone on this bench, impossibly young, breathtakingly blonde and lovely, and you were eating ice cream with such abandon, such pleasure, such mystical delight that I could not believe my eyes. As if there were nothing else in the world on that summer Sunday.”",
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                        "text": "“Deda kissed her on the forehaed. \"There are difficult days ahead for all of us. Ahead of you particularly, Tania. You and Dasha. Now that Pasha is not here, your parents need you more than ever. Your mettle will be tested, along with everyone else's. There will be only one standard, the standard of survial at all cost, and it will be up to you to say at what price survival. Hold your head high, and if you're 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. We expect to see you in Molotov next month.\" \"Never compromise on what your heart tells you to be right, my granddaughter,\" Deda said, getting up and hugging her. \"You hear me?\" \"Loud and clear, Deda,\" Tatiana said, hugging him back.”",
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                        "text": "“Everyone wishes their life were happier.” Lily shook her head. “No. Not like beautiful people. They walk this earth, their chin up to the rest of us, and think that great happiness, great love, great joy is their right and their prerogative. Passion as the entitlement of the beautiful, the way power is the entitlement of the rich.” Lily paused. “Especially when it comes to love. Beauty and love become somehow synonymous. How can plain people have great love? They can’t, that’s how. They can have average love, mediocre love, but their hearts can’t soar. Only beautiful hearts can soar.” “I think you’ve hit on the nail right there,” said Spencer. “Beautiful people don’t necessarily have beautiful hearts.” “But it doesn’t matter, don’t you see? You don’t fall in love with a heart. You fall in love with a woman’s face, with her body, with her hair, with her smell. That’s first, everything else is secondary. My mother’s beauty when she was young was so extreme that she didn’t understand how every man who met her didn’t love her in extremis.”",
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                        "text": "Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you, now on top of you with this scourge marks, and you, who used to love me, who was sympathized, internalized, normalized everything, you are not allowed to turn away from me…this is what I am going to look like until the day I die. I can't get any peace from you ever unless you find away to make peace with this. Make peace with me. Or let me go for good.",
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                        "text": "“Alexander. Here he is, before he was Tatiana’s, at the age of twenty, getting his medal of valor for bringing back Yuri Stepanov during the 1940 Winter War. Alexander is in his dress Soviet uniform, snug against his body, his stance at-ease and his hand up to his temple in teasing salute. There is a gleaming smile on his face, his eyes are carefree, his whole man-self full of breath-taking, aching youth. And yet, the war was on, and his men had already died and frozen and starved … and his mother and father were gone… and he was far away from home, and getting farther and farther, and every day was his last – one way or another, every day was his last. And yet, he smiles, he shines, he is happy.”",
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                        "text": "“Mimoo shook her head. “Too sleepy for her maybe, but ideal for her mother, who worries too much. I don’t need excitement in my life. I’ve had enough of it, thank you.” She shrugged. “Gia will be fine. She’ll be fine anywhere.” “Gia?” “It’s Gia when I love her,” said Mimoo. “My husband never called her anything but that. Me, I love her, but she drives me crazy. So headstrong. To call her stubborn like a mule is an injustice to mules. The mules are St. Francis compared to her.” Harry laughed.”",
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