If there is God, I thought...Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh..." "Tatiasha...isn't it nice to know the….

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left..

He came over in long pur­pose­ful strides, sat at the edge of her bed, and in a ten­der, pos­ses­sive ges­ture wiped the lip­stick off her lips. “Wha….

Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning ….

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

I love you breathlessly, my amazing man..

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana..

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you f….

Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most im….

Do you see the Field of Mars, where I walked next to my bride in her white wedding dress, with red sandals in her hands, when we were kids?” “I see i….

The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have..

If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything..

Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars..

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 ….

Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes..

Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cos….

Oh Alexander," she said, "what do you want from me..." "Everything!" he whispered fiercely..

Up on the roof Tatiana thought about the evening minute, the minute she used to walk out the factory doors, turn her head to the left even before her….

Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she was a little girl, sh….

Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?.