Quotes from Paullina Simons

Non riesco a credere che ci sposeremo il giorno del mio compleanno!» Dice lei. «Così non mi dimenticherai mai.» «E chi potrebbe dimenticarti, Alexander?» Chiede, cercandolo dolcemente con la mano.

Alexander was right, she thought, He has been right about everything. Everything that he told me would happen has come to pass.

Ti dicono lui è mio e tu dici va bene, va bene, è tuo, certo, prendilo, niente è importante per me. Né me stessa, né il mio pane, né la mia vita, e neanche lui. Io combatto per niente.

Le mandò un bacio e sparì, senza guardare Tatiana. E lei sperava disperatamente in un ultimo, fuggevole sguardo. Nella semioscurità avrebbe voluto sentire i suoi occhi dolci su di sé, leggervi la verità che aveva appena negato. Ma lui non la guardò, Tatiana non poté leggere nessuna verità. Vide solo che l'aveva rifiutata.

If she breathed, a part of her would touch a part of him. Tatiana was too overwhelmed to speak, as her intense feelings dropped into the brightly lit well inside her.

No, it wasn't war that terrified Tatiana. It was the resolute chaos of her broken heart.

Get married...? I...? And yet why not! Of course it wont be easy sailing, but what of that? I'm young and strong, and content to labor hard and long. You'll build us soon, if not tomorrow, a simple nest for sweet repose. And I'll keep you free of sorrow, and in a year or two who knows! You may obtain a snug position, and it shall be my mission, to tend and rear your children, so we may live and forever be one. Till death us sever, and grandsons lay us both to rest.

As she worked, her face was soft, her gaze blinkless, her body outwardly relaxed, nearly motionless. But inside her head there was a relentless noise, and to shut it out she started counting her records and then counting sheep. One sheep, two sheep. three sheep ... two hundred and fifty sheep think of nothing but sheep. Calm, she thought, calm.

She's silent a lot these days, thought Tully. Not just quiet, for Tally spent many quiet years in Jennifer's company, but silent. Like a voice stopped talking inside Jennifer's head and she was just sitting around waiting for her body to go silent as well. Like a TV with the sound permanently off.

Luchando contra molinos de viento

la virtud verdadera y el amor verdadero por los seres humanos se definía asignando a cada objeto el grado preciso de amor que le era propio, que merecía.

Nunca te comprometas en aquello que tu corazón no te diga que es correcto

No, Tully, he doesn't get it because he doesn't love me. When you don't love somebody you never get how they feel. You don't even look for it.

Ouspensky, do you ever think of how many things you don't know?" Ouspensky laughed. "I like the beginning already". "Think of how many things you stumble to and say, how should I know?" "I never say that, sir" said Ouspensky. "I say, how the fuck should I know?

Oh, Tully, you really don't understand, do you? It's not a matter of going after him, don't you see?" Jennifer began to cry again. "Don't you see that if he wanted me, he would've seen by now what's so plain to me and to everyone else? He would've seen it. But he doesn't see it because he doesn't feel the same way.

Forget it. Tell me, do you think you love Robin? Honestly." Tully looked over at Jennifer's shadow in the dark room. "I don't particularly want to lose him," she said. "Is that love?

How's Jen ever going to handle anything if she cannot handle something even this minor? Jen had always suspected there would come a time when she would be called upon to deal and wouldn't be able to. No, I told her, don't be absurd. Don't be silly. Everything that happens only makes you stronger. Remember what Tolstoy said? "All that doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But yet, here she is, weaker than ever, and I cannot find the right words.

What was the point of falling in love if you stayed exactly as you were?

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. [...] The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

God on high, hear my prayer. Don't give me an easier life. [...] Make me a stronger man.

Un hombre puede ser perfectamente feliz con una mujer, siempre y cuando no la ame»

Cuando se vive mucho tiempo, se aprenden muchas cosas

You know that we all need one other person. One other person to remind us we are still human beings and not beasts.

Sí, te preocupas de los sentimientos de todos, menos de los míos –afirmó Alexandr, con un tono mordaz. –No