America Quote by Paullina Simons

“She held the money to her chest and tried to fathom Alexander's heart. He was the man who, a few meters away from freedom,…

— Paullina Simons

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

“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…

— Paullina Simons

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…

— Paullina Simons

“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…

— Paullina Simons

“Tatiana knew that she belonged irrevocably to Alexander. She thought she could extricate herself from him, that she could go on with her life…

— Paullina Simons

“All she had to do was stay where she was, go on as she was. But there was no Tatiana here. Tatiana remained with…

— Paullina Simons

Tatiana said. "Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I'm-" "Blind!", Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood, desolately failing…

— Paullina Simons

Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days, of the…

— Paullina Simons

“He heard bombs exploding like fireworks, and as if in a dream his father's face flashed before him, wanting to know what Alexander was…

— Paullina Simons

Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad…

— Paullina Simons

“Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.”

— Mary Renault