Allison

“You want to know what I thought of in that boat?
I thought, I have to stay alive. Tatiasha will never forgive me.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

“Tania, I was spellbound by you from the first moment I saw you. There I was, living my dissolute life, and war had just started. My entire base was in disarray, people were running around, closing accounts, taking money out, grabbing food out of stores, buying up the entire Gostiny Dvor, volunteering for the army, sending their kids to camp—” He broke off. “And in the middle of my chaos, there was you!” Alexander whispered passionately. “You were sitting alone on this bench, impossibly young, breathtakingly blonde and lovely, and you were eating ice cream with such abandon, such pleasure, such mystical delight that I could not believe my eyes. As if there were nothing else in the world on that summer Sunday.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

“Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

“Thee is my wolf,” she’d said to him. “And if thee hunts at night, thee will come home.” “And sleep at thy feet,” he’d replied.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood