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Paullina Simons
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 1
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St. Petersburg
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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.
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And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.
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There is a very definite Russian heart in me that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
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And then, because she was Tatiana and because she couldn’t help herself, and because he wouldn’t have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms.
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Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life
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Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.
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Thank you, she whispered, for keeping yourself alive, soldier. You're welcome, he whispered back.
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You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.
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I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through.
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Tatiana, I love you. Do you hear me? I love you like I’ve never loved anyone in my whole life. Now, get up. For me, Tatia. For me, please get up and go take care of your sister. Go on. And I’ll take care of you.” His lips kissed her cheek.
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Courage, Alexander,” she whispered. “Courage, Tatiana.
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Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.
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Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?
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I'm not hungry, Alexander whispered. I'm famished. Watch out for me. Now, don't make a single sound, he said, moving on top of her. Tania, God....I'll cover your mouth, just like this, and you hold on to me, just like this, and I'm going to-just like this-
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When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.
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The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.
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Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.
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With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.
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When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.
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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?
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