Paullina Simons
Paullina Simons
Paullina Simonsis a Russian-born American writer and the international best-selling author of the novels Tully, Red Leaves, Eleven Hours, The Bronze Horseman, Tatiana and Alexander, Lily and The Summer Garden...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionWriter
CountryRussian Federation
ice soldier saws
When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.
eye faces gorgeous
....and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I’ll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face.
pay willing asks
Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?
book heart thinking
There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
growing-up book favourite
When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.
writing years wish
I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.
summer falling-in-love love-you
Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life.
arms way helping
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.
soldier alive welcome
Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.
wrath wish different
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.