195 Quotes by Paullina Simons

Shura, I’m going to die.

Tatia: I think its too big to fit.

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.

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.

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?

La memoria... esa cruel enemiga del consuelo.

It wasn’t this soldier’s uniform that affected her, and it wasn’t his looks. It was the way he had stared at her from across the street, separated from her by ten meters of concrete, a bus, and the electric wires of the tram line.

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

Through the smoke she could feel bodies around her. Hot and faint, she felt for them with her hands. The gunfire came from right outside the door, but when the lattice beam fell from the ceiling, all sounds faded away, all faded away, and there was no more fear. Only regret was left. Regret for Alexander.