195 Quotes by Paullina Simons

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.

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

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.

It was a perfect day. For five minutes there was no war, and it was just a glorious Sunday in a Leningrad June. When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.

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.

Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence.

To live as a child in a world without time – not in infinity, but in eternity, what a joy. To never count your minutes. To just be – in the eternal present. What bliss.

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...

I saved you for me.