Quotes from Paullina Simons

He's not dead. He is still alive, and while he is alive, he is mine.

La memoria... esa cruel enemiga del consuelo.

Why was it that the young were always convinced they had invented sex?

Non temerai i terrori della notte, né la freccia che vola di giorno, la peste che vaga nelle tenebre, lo sterminio che devasta mezzogiorno. Mille cadranno al tuo fianco, diecimila alla tua destra; ma nulla ti potrà colpire.

the days of the young, when they gulped the air and lived to see the better world, the grown-up world, when they could not wait for the days to end so that they could get on with the rest of their lives.

He hugged her. "Be strong for me, Tatiana," Alexander said hoarsely. "Save yourself for me." "That's what I do, Shura," Tatiana said. "I save myself for you." Alexander bent to her, but she couldn't even look up. He kissed the top of her hat. They held on for a few more seconds.

Alexander shows Anthony how he crouches and she climbs on his shoulders; he straightens up, holding on to her hands and then lets go, and she also straightens up and balances, standing on top of his shoulders for a long moment before pushing off his trapezoid in a nearly perfect, splashless forward dive. Mom, says Anthony, looking impressed, where did you and Dad learn to do that? And Dad, glancing at Mom in the water, says, Lazarevo.

I know what keeping a promise means." "No, you only know what making a promise means," Alexander said. "You are very good at making the promise. It's keeping the promise you have a problem with.

Shh…come here," he said, and hugged her gently. "Tania, whatever questions you have, the answer is yes to all of them," he whispered

She ate it and cried. Soon, he put the melting ice cream away. "Shura," Tatiana whispered, "darling, forget what should have been. Remember all that was." "Tatiasha, babe," Alexander whispered, coming back to bed to be covered, "my one and only wife, forget our age, our splendid youth, forget it all and let our crazy love make us young.

The sponge of my heart had been filled up sometime last evening and had begun to drip.

You sweet thing," he murmured. "You're the sweetest thing. I don't know what to do, what to do, Tania." He kissed her lips

Dasha bent him to her and kissed him on the mouth. And kissed him and kissed him. And kissed him.

Tu valor será puesto a prueba, junto con el de todos los demás. Sólo habrá una norma, al de sobrevivir a cualquier precio, y te corresponderá a ti decidir cuál es el precio de la supervivencia. Mantén las cabeza bien alta, y si tienes que caer, cae luchando, consciente de que no has comprometido tu alma de ninguna manera

Why do you enjoy torturing yourself? Do you feel life has been too good to you?" Tatiana stared at him. "Life has," she said slowly, "been too good to me.

I think you kept three credits, consciously or subconsciously, so that you could hang on to something, hang on and not move forward. I think you want to feel that you're still unfinished." She wanted to tell her grandmother that she was still unfinished. Unfinished, unanswered, unformed.

The weary Italian woman nodded at her children behind her. "Where we came from, everybody lives only one kind of life. Alessandro said he wanted his children to choose the life, not the life to choose the children. And also," she added, panting, slowing down and wiping her brow, "he said America is the only place in the world where even the poor can be smart.

Èšine-È›i mereu capul sus,iar dac? vei fi nevoit? s? È›i-l apleci, încearc? s? o faci f?r? s?-È›i compromiÈ›i sufletul!

Se mi accadesse qualcosa, Tatia, non preoccuparti del mio corpo. La mia anima non si riunirà al corpo, né raggiungerà Dio. Volerà subito verso di te, a Lazarevo. Io non voglio stare tra gli eroi, né tra i principi, ma solo accanto alla regina del lago Ilmen. Alexander

Tatiana heard Alexander say, "Don't bother with shots. Pour mine straight into a glass." "Good man," said Papa, pouring him a glass.

Mankind has never invented a weapon that they did not use sooner or later.

I'd like an armchair for the bedroom," he murmured. "What do we need an armchair in the bedroom for?" she said. "We have a couch outside." "Buy the chair and I'll show you." After the chair was delivered, he undressed her and kneeled between her legs upraised on the chair arms. Afterward she agreed it was money well spent.

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