Dream Quote by Paullina Simons

“Since we cannot move Leningrad ... then we must move the border.”

— Robert Edwards

“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

“Tanya, I can not tell you how Leningrad looks today. I used to say that Paris is the most beautiful in the world, and…

— Miroslav Antić

“It’s like the fates are conspiring to keep me in Moscow. It’s not enough that Russia has winters brutal enough to decimate its enemies’…

— Anna Zaires

“A Russian who uses his imagination is done for. I certainly never use mine.”

— Haruki Murakami

“We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of…

— Seamus Heaney

“you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you. At first there were the Russians; then there were all…

— Ernest Hemingway

In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in…

— Anna Akhmatova

“In the daytime, I know that they're (Russians) close. But at night, my optimism abandons me, I buckle. The night is German, and who…

— Ana Novac

“You and the Germans, you have your super- soldiers, your secret weapons... but we Russians, we have nothing but our winter.”

— Vasily Karpov

“I will never go back. For the simple reason that all the Russia I need, after all, is with me--always with me. Her literature,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

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