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Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2) QUOTES

Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2) QUOTES

1 " Tatiana hugged him and said, “And here’s mine: ‘Honey, what do you prefer—my beautiful body or my beautiful face?’”

“Your sense of humor,” returned Alexander, holding her to him until she couldn’t breathe. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

2 " Tania.” Her voice was soothing. “There is a second love. And a third love. And if you’re lucky, a fourth and a fifth, too. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

3 " «Non riesco a credere che ci sposeremo il giorno del mio compleanno!» Dice lei.
«Così non mi dimenticherai mai.»
«E chi potrebbe dimenticarti, Alexander?» Chiede, cercandolo dolcemente con la mano. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

4 " 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. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

5 " Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

6 " Will you remember that? Anywhere you are, if you can look up and find Perseus in the sky, find that smile, and hear the galactic wind whisper your name, you'll know that it's me, calling for you... calling you back to Lazarevo. (Alexander) "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

7 " There is one moment, a moment in eternity. Before we find out the truth about one another. That simple moment is the one that propels us through life – what we felt at the very edge of our future, standing over the abyss, before we knew for sure we loved. Before we knew for sure we loved forever. …

Before all that, you and I walked through The Summer Garden, and once in a while my bare arm touched your arm, and once in a while you spoke and that gave me an excuse to look up into your face, into your laughing eyes, to catch a glimpse of your mouth and I, who had never been touched, tried to imagine what it might be like to have your mouth touch me. Falling in love with you in The Summer Garden in the white nights of Leningrad is the moment that propels me though life. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

8 " In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

9 " Live as if you have faith,” she said, “and faith shall be
given to you. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

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

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

11 " I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

12 " 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 , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

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

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

14 " 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 , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

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. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

16 " Tania,” he whispers, “promise me you won’t forget me when I die.”
“You won’t die, soldier,” she says. “You won’t die. Live! Live on, breathe on, claw onto life, and do not let go. Promise me you will live for me, and I promise you, when you’re done, I will be waiting for you.” She is sobbing. “Whenever you’re done, Alexander, I will be here, waiting for you. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

17 " You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us, Alexander had said to her, once.

She knew now, knew for certain what she had long feared, long suspected: Alexander had handed her his life and said, this is for you. I cannot save myself, I can only save you, and you have to go and live your life the way you and only you were meant to live it. You have to be strong, and you have to be happy, and you have to love our child, and eventually, you have to love. Eventually, you have to learn to love again, and to smile again, and to put me away, you have to learn to hold another man's hand, and kiss another man's lips. You have to marry again. You have to have more children. You have to live your life--for me, for you. You have to live it as we would have lived it. All in one word: Orbeli. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

18 " And then, because she was Tatiana and because she couldn’t help herself, and because he wouldn’t have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

19 " 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 , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)

20 " Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life. "

― Paullina Simons , Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)