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The Summer Garden
by Paullina Simons
"Do you want to live in Arizona, Tatia, the land of the small spring?"
I have no idea how to write a review for this book. True to form, it was just phenomenal. I have NEVER read a book that has affected me like these Tatiana and Alexander books have. I have not been able to sleep well in days since finishing. There is something so raw, so real, about these characters. They are perfectly created, perfectly written, perfect in their love and faults and needs and failures and successes. And I have never been so lost in characters before in my life. Their whole story is heartbreaking and heart-lifting all at the same time and I do not know how that is possible. I truly have no words to say what I want to. Wow.
"But really, Deda, I'm not sure of anything anymore. Everything seems so muddled this summer." She heaved a sigh out of her shoulders. Deda nodded again, "And what did I tell you to do to unmuddle whenever you are unsure of yourself, whenever you are in doubt, ask yourself these three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? And most important, ask yourself, what do you love?' His arm was around her. "And when you answer, Tania, you will know who you are. And more important - if you ask this question of the people around you, you will know who they are too." p.-370
And THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ENDING I COULD HAVE IMAGINED TO WRAP UP, BRING HOME, FULL CIRCLE THIS MOST INCREDIBLE OF ALL LOVE STORIES:
"To cross the street. To follow her. And she will give your life meaning, she will save you. Yas, 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."
I have no idea how to write a review for this book. True to form, it was just phenomenal. I have NEVER read a book that has affected me like these Tatiana and Alexander books have. I have not been able to sleep well in days since finishing. There is something so raw, so real, about these characters. They are perfectly created, perfectly written, perfect in their love and faults and needs and failures and successes. And I have never been so lost in characters before in my life. Their whole story is heartbreaking and heart-lifting all at the same time and I do not know how that is possible. I truly have no words to say what I want to. Wow.
"But really, Deda, I'm not sure of anything anymore. Everything seems so muddled this summer." She heaved a sigh out of her shoulders. Deda nodded again, "And what did I tell you to do to unmuddle whenever you are unsure of yourself, whenever you are in doubt, ask yourself these three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? And most important, ask yourself, what do you love?' His arm was around her. "And when you answer, Tania, you will know who you are. And more important - if you ask this question of the people around you, you will know who they are too." p.-370
And THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ENDING I COULD HAVE IMAGINED TO WRAP UP, BRING HOME, FULL CIRCLE THIS MOST INCREDIBLE OF ALL LOVE STORIES:
"To cross the street. To follow her. And she will give your life meaning, she will save you. Yas, 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."