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Quotes About Connection

I want to meet this one," he said. "I need to meet the girl who has taken our wandering Alexander's horse and cart.
~ Paullina Simons
Wir gehen allein durch diese Welt, doch wen wir großes Glück haben, dürfen wir einen Augeblick lenag jemandem gehören, jemandem der uns durch die Einsamkeit trägt, die ein Legen lang andauert! Und für eine Minute habe ich ihn noch einmal berührt, in der Abenddämerung, und mir sind rote Flügel gewachsen, ich war wieder jung im Sommergarten. Ich hatte wieder Hoffnung und das ewige Leben.
~ Paullina Simons
I found my true love on the banks of the river Kama," whispered Alexander, staring at her. "I found my true love on Ulitsa Saltykov-Schedrin, while I sat on a bench eating ice cream." "You didn't find me. You weren't even looking for me. I found you." Long pause. "Alexander, were you…looking for me?" "All my life.
~ Paullina Simons
I have maybe a half-hour before the next surgery. Want to go and get a cup of coffee?" What I want is to meander eight kilometres down the canals with you from Kirov to your Fifth Soviet door. I want to get on the tram with you, the bus with you, sit in the Italian Gardens with you. That is what I want. I will take the cup of coffee in your hospital cafeteria.
~ Paullina Simons
En el tapiz de la existencia de Alexander había un único hilo que no podría romperse con la muerte, el dolor, la distancia, el tiempo, la guerra o el comunismo. «No hay nada capaz de romperlo —susurró Tatiana. Y con su aliento, su cuerpo y sus labios, añadió—: Mientras yo esté en el mundo, mientras respire, tú perdurarás, soldado.»
~ Paullina Simons
She hadn't meant to do it. Falling this crashingly in love with Spencer didn't take Lily by accident. It took her by storm.
~ Paullina Simons
This wasn't a way of getting over a passing crush on your older sister's swain. This was the moon of Jupiter and the sun of Venus aligning in the sky over her head.
~ Paullina Simons
What strength he once possessed had left his body and gone to a tiny girl with freckles.
~ Paullina Simons
Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.
~ Paullina Simons
Hello, Tatiana. I'm Alexander. Have we met before?
~ Paullina Simons
Tatiana... Tatiana... Ta... tiana... —Calla, por favor. —No lo olvides. Dondequiera que estés, si puedes mirar al cielo y ver la constelación de Verseo, si ves su sonrisa y oyes cómo el viento estelar susurra tu nombre, sabrás que te estoy llamando para que vuelvas a Lazarevo. —No tendrás que llamarme, soldado —dice Tatiana, apoyando la cara en el brazo deAlexander—. Nunca me iré de aquí.
~ Paullina Simons
Tatiana hugged him and said, "And here's mine: 'Honey, what do you prefer—my beautiful body or my beautiful face?'" "Your sense of humor," returned Alexander, holding her to him until she couldn't breathe.
~ Paullina Simons
Tania." Her voice was soothing. "There is a second love. And a third love. And if you're lucky, a fourth and a fifth, too.
~ Paullina Simons
I can't brethe." She was embracing him the way he used to embrace her in Lazarevo. And for the same reason. "Open your mouth," she whispered, leaning onto his face. "I'll breath for you.
~ Paullina Simons
Me estuviste buscando?», le había preguntado Tatiana una vez, y él había contestado: «Toda la vida».
~ Paullina Simons
there is one place I'm comforted. I wake up there, and I go to sleep there; I am at peace there, and loved there: your subsuming arms. Tatiana
~ Paullina Simons
They kissed as if in a fever…they kissed as if the breath were leaving their bodies.
~ Paullina Simons
He's not dead. He is still alive, and while he is alive, he is mine.
~ Paullina Simons
Dasha bent him to her and kissed him on the mouth. And kissed him and kissed him. And kissed him.
~ 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.
~ Paullina Simons
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.
~ Paullina Simons
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.
~ Paullina Simons
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?
~ Paullina Simons
You know that we all need one other person. One other person to remind us we are still human beings and not beasts.
~ Paullina Simons