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"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…"

- Alexander Barrington (“The Summer Garden”by Paullina Simons)

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"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 Barrington (“The Bronze Horseman” by Paullina Simons)

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

-  Paullina Simons, Tatiana and Alexander (via intoxicatedcirculationn)

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"I am so happy, yet I’ve never been more miserable in my whole life. Can you possibly understand? You with your wings of joy, can you understand what you carry on your shoulders, how heavy I am, how my pain weighs you down? No, you are made of gossamer, nothing can weigh you down, not even I, you float through me and above me and below me. You float, while I founder - in my fear, in my folly, in my fierce weakness."

- The Bridge to Holy Cross - Paullina Simons (via chanelbagsandcigarettedrags)

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"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."

- The Summer Garden by Paullina Simons (via blair-bear)

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"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."

- Tatiana Metanova (via standardblack)

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"He is thinking of sailboats in the distant oceans,the desert from dimmest childhood, the ghost of fortune, the girl on the bench. When he saw her, he saw something new. He saw it because he wanted to see it, because he wanted to change his life. He stepped off the curb and out of the deadfall.
To cross the street. To follow her. And she will give your life meaning, she will save you. Yes, yes-to cross.
“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."

- The Summer Garden | Paullina Simons

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"When Tatiana had been a child in Luga, her beloved Deda, seeing her depressed one summer and unable to find her way, said to her, ‘Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask, what do you love?’."

- Paullina Simons, ‘The Bronze Horseman’. Pp. 436. (via lesamours)

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"She smelled incredible. She smelled of soap and sunshine and caramelized sugar."

- The Bronze Horseman, Paullina Simons. (via exterminate—exterminate)

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