Paullina Simons
Paullina Simons
Paullina Simonsis a Russian-born American writer and the international best-selling author of the novels Tully, Red Leaves, Eleven Hours, The Bronze Horseman, Tatiana and Alexander, Lily and The Summer Garden...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionWriter
CountryRussian Federation
rivers mountain way
You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.
giving way breaths
I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.
men wife widows
Here, take this, she would say, take this, and tell me where he is. Tell me whether he's dead or alive, so I can walk as his widow or his wife. No one would, or could, tell her, and so she continued to cook, and to learn new things all the while searching for an answer among the outcasts. The way he carried his body, the way he walked in my life, Tatiana thought, declared that he was the only man I had ever loved, and he knew it. And until I was alone without him, I thought it was all worth it.
light darkness deserve
Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.
wall fall night
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.
mother men russia
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.
protective consumed
He is just protective over me-” “Not protective, Tania. Consumed.
crazy love-you worship-you
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. I want you to marry me.
together lasts letting-you-go
Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.
love-you greater
The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.
heart eye please
Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.
comfort heal
He sent you to redeem me, to comfort me, and to heal me—and that’s just so far,” he added with a smile.
hug sound forget
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 sound of that,” Alexander said, hugging her tighter.
want said tatiana-metanova
Oh Alexander," she said, "what do you want from me..." "Everything!" he whispered fiercely.