Quotes from Paullina Simons

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

All good things come to those who wait.

He sent you to redeem me, to comfort me, and to heal me—and that's just so far," he added with a smile.

Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life

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.

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

"Alexander, were you looking for me?" "All my life."

Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life.

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you're all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.

Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.

If there is God, I thought...Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh..." "Tatiasha...isn't it nice to know there is a God?

The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

We'll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…" Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.

Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.

Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life.

There are some battles, no matter how much you don't want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most important, ask yourself, what do you love?

Love is, to be loved," said Alexander, "in return.

All great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.