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The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1) QUOTES

The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1) QUOTES

21 " When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

22 " Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

23 " Love is,” she repeated slowly, looking only at Dasha, “when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

24 " 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. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

25 " Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

26 " Soldier! Let me cradle your head and caress your face, let me kiss your dear sweet lips and cry across the seas and whisper through the icy Russian grass how I feel for you . . . Luga, Ladoga, Leningrad, Lazarevo . . . Alexander, once you carried me, and now I carry you. Into my eternity, now I carry you.

Through Finland, through Sweden, to America, hand outstretched, I stand and limp forward, the galloping steed black and riderless in my wake. Your heart, your rifle, they will comfort me, they’ll be my cradle and my grave.

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 will be all the days of my life. (Tatiana) "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

27 " He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-"
"Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through her teeth, tears streaming down her face, "for your brave and indifferent face, Alexander!" She groaned in pain. "Not for your brave and indifferent heart. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

28 " They had no past. They had no future. They just were. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

29 " I saved you for me. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

30 " 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. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

31 " Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

32 " Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

33 " Tatiana...you and I had only one moment..." said Alexander. "A single moment in time, in your time and mine...one instant, when another life could have still been possible." He kissed her lips. "Do you know what I'm talking about?"
When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.
"I know that moment," whispered Tatiana. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

34 " Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but
old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

35 " Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

36 " Shura...are you...in love with me?"
"Turn to me," Alexander said. She turned. "Tatia, I worship you. I'm crazy in love with you. I want you to marry me. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

37 " If there is God, I thought...Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh..." "Tatiasha...isn't it nice to know there is a God? "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

38 " 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- "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

39 " 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. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

40 " Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered.
“Courage, Ta­tiana. "

― Paullina Simons , The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)