Top 100 Paullina Simons Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “All good things come to those who wait.”

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

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3. “I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.”

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4. “Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.”

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5. “And that’s my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.”

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6. “We walk alone through this world, but if we’re lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.”

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7. “I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going.”

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8. “Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are – Unyielding.”

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9. “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.”

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10. “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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11. “Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.”

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

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14. “I want you to know that should something happen to me, don’t worry about my body. My soul isn’t going to return to it, nor to God. It’s flying straight to you, where it knows it can find you, in Lazarevo. I want to be neither with kings nor heroes, but with the queen of Lake Ilmen.”

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15. “If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.”

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16. “You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,? Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.”

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

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18. “But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans, and even America, and crossed the street for Tatiana Metanova.”

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19. “Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.”

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20. “They had no past. They had no future. They just were.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.”

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23. “Tatia: I think its too big to fit.”

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24. “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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25. “He’s not dead. He is still alive, and while he is alive, he is mine.”

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26. “When you die, you’ll be wearing your white dress with red roses, and your hair will be long and falling around your shoulders. When they shoot you, up on your damn roof or walking alone on the street, your blood will look like another red rose on your dress, and no one will notice, not even you when you bleed out for Mother Russia.”

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27. “Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.”

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28. “Tatia, let me take care of you.” He stopped and took a breath. “Please. Don’t be afraid. I will never hurt you.” “I know that,” she muttered, unable or unwilling to open her eyes.”

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29. “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.”

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30. “Shura, I’m yours. You may not like it today, you may not want it tonight, you may wish for it all to be different now, but it remains, and I remain, as always, only yours. Nothing can change that. Not your wrath, your fists, your body or your death.”

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31. “When I was growing up, ‘Anna Karenina’ was one of my favourite books.”

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32. “You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.”

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33. “Someday we’ll meet in Lvov, my love and I.”

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34. “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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35. “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.”

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36. “I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.”

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37. “Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the body you destroyed for me, for the son you have given me, for the twenty-nine days we lived like Red Birds of Paradise, for all our Naples sands and Napa wines, for all the days you have been my first and last breath, for Orbeli- I will forgive you.”

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38. “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.”

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39. “Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.”

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40. “Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she was a little girl, she dreamed of a fine world in which a good man walked its winding roads, perhaps somewhere in his wandering soul searching for her.”

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41. “The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you’ll ever have.”

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42. “I’ll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.”

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43. “We walk alone through this world, but if we’re lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness. For an evening minute I touched him again and grew red wings and was young again in the Summer Garden, and had hope and eternal life.”

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44. “When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.”

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45. “I’m going to die with Alexander’s hand on my face, Tatiana thought. That is not a bad way to die. I cannot move. I can’t get up. Just can’t. She closed her eyes and felt herself drifting. Through the haze in front of her she heard Alexander’s voice. “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.”

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46. “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?” His arm was around her. “And when you answer, Tania, you will know who you are. And more important – if you ask this question of the people around you, you will know who they are, too.”

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47. “Everyone feels that way, that we will never stop loving someone, that we will never love anyone else, that we can never feel more than we do right now, but yet... we do, somehow, stop loving. We do get over it. Don’t we? We have to. We must. Otherwise, how could we go on?”

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48. “Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them.”

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49. “You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you’re writing stuff that you know nobody’s going to care about then you should rethink what you’re doing!”

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50. “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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