Frasi di Paullina Simons pagina 2

“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.”

“Soldato, lascia che ti accarezzi il viso e baci le tue labbra, lasciami urlare attraverso i mari e sussurrare attraverso i prati ghiacciati della Russia quello che sento per te… Luga, Ladoga, Leningrado, Lazarevo… Alexander, un tempo tu mi hai portata e io ora porto te. Nella mia eternità ora io porto te. Attraverso la Finlandia, attraverso la Svezia, fino in America con le mani tese, mi ergerò e mi farò avanti, destriero nero che galoppa senza cavaliere nella notte. Il tuo cuore, il tuo fucile mi conforteranno, saranno la mia culla, la mia tomba. Lazarevo stilla il tuo essere nel mio cuore, goccia d'alba al chiaro di luna, goccia del fiume Kama. Quando mi cerchi, cercami là, perchè là sarò tutti i giorni della mia vita.”

The Bronze Horseman

“E non me lo hai nascosto. Niente affatto. Hai lasciato il tuo amore in bella mostra, non lo hai chiuso in un armadio. Marina aveva ragione. Ero cieca. Lo hai lasciato in mille posti perché io lo vedessi. Adesso li vedo tutti e mi fanno male. Ma tu eri una bambina. Come poteva una bambina amare qualcuno?”

The Bronze Horseman

“Non tremerò né indietreggerò, non abbasserò la testa. Troverò il modo di alzare gli occhi, di non lasciare entrare niente.
Eccetto te, Alexander.”

The Bronze Horseman

“«Tania…» sussurrò Alexander. «Non ti lascerò andare finché non ti avrò avuta abbastanza. Finché non mi avrai scaldato dentro e fuori».”

The Bronze Horseman

Paullina Simons libro Tatiana and Alexander

Tatiana and Alexander

“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.”

“Attraversa la strada. Seguila. E darà un senso alla tua esistenza.”

The Bronze Horseman

“Anthony Anthony… mi senti figliolo? Sei la mia vita e la vita di tua madre. Per me sarai sempre il bambino di 3 anni che gioca in cortile, che si taglia i capelli come i miei, che cammina come me, mi porta le coccinelle, mi riempie di gioia, mi tiene in vita. Ecco cosa vedo quando ti guardo. Ricordi quando pescavamo insieme, quando eri piccolo? Non hai idea di quanta felicità mi donassi. Mi hai sempre reso fiero da quando sei nato. Devi alzarti e seguirmi. Vedrai non mollerai, non tu. Ti rimetterai, ma alzati figliolo. Coraggio, alzati, Anthony.”

“Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier."
"You're welcome," he whispered back.”

Paullina Simons: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

Paullina Simons libro Tatiana and Alexander

Origine: Tatiana and Alexander

“I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.”

Paullina Simons libro The Summer Garden

Origine: The Summer Garden

“I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.”

Paullina Simons libro The Summer Garden

Origine: The Summer Garden

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

Paullina Simons libro Tatiana and Alexander

Origine: Tatiana and Alexander

“Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.”

Paullina Simons libro The Summer Garden

Origine: The Summer Garden

“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.”

Paullina Simons libro Tatiana and Alexander

Origine: Tatiana and Alexander

“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.”

Paullina Simons libro Tatiana and Alexander

Origine: Tatiana and Alexander

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

Paullina Simons libro Tatiana and Alexander

Origine: Tatiana and Alexander

“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.”

Paullina Simons libro Tatiana and Alexander

Origine: Tatiana and Alexander

“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.”

“This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.”

Paullina Simons libro The Bronze Horseman

Origine: The Bronze Horseman

“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.”

Paullina Simons libro The Summer Garden

Origine: The Summer Garden

“We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.”

Paullina Simons libro The Bronze Horseman

Origine: The Bronze Horseman

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

Paullina Simons libro The Summer Garden

Origine: The Summer Garden

“He is just protective over me-”
“Not protective, Tania. Consumed.”

Paullina Simons libro The Bronze Horseman

Origine: The Bronze Horseman

“Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won’t you, and I’ll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everybody does.

But my innocence is gone forever.”

Paullina Simons libro The Bronze Horseman

Origine: The Bronze Horseman

“Tatia: I think its too big to fit”

Paullina Simons libro The Bronze Horseman

Origine: The Bronze Horseman

“Oh Alexander," she said, "what do you want from me…"
"Everything!" he whispered fiercely.”

Paullina Simons libro The Bronze Horseman

Origine: The Bronze Horseman

“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”

Paullina Simons libro The Bronze Horseman

Origine: The Bronze Horseman

“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.”

Paullina Simons libro The Summer Garden

Origine: The Summer Garden

“There will be only one standard, the standard of survival at all cost, and it will be up to you to say at what price survival. Hold your head high, and if you are going to go down, go down knowing you have not in any way compromised your soul.
Pulling him by the arm, Babushka said “That’s enough. Tania, you do whatever you have to do to survive, and damn your soul.””

Paullina Simons libro Tatiana and Alexander

Origine: Tatiana and Alexander

“That’s the saddest loss of all, to go on for a few weeks, a few days, a night, a minute, and think everything is still all right when the structure you’ve built your life on has crumbled. We should have been mourning you, but instead we made plans, went to work, dreamed, loved, not knowing you were already behind us.”

Paullina Simons libro The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman (2001)

“Alexander, were you looking for me?”

Paullina Simons libro The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman (2001)

“(Tatiana nervously looked down at the present.)
"Thank you".
Gifts were not something she was used to. Wrapped gifts? Unheard of, even when they came wrapped only in plain brown paper.
"No. Open first. Then say thank you."
She smiled.
"What do I do? Do I take the paper off?"
"Yes. You tear it off."
"And then what?"
"And then you throw it away."
"The whole present or just the paper?" Slowly he said, "Just the paper."
"and but you wrapped it so nicely. Why would I throw it away?"
"It’s just paper."”

Paullina Simons libro The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman (2001)