Occupation: Writer Birth: 1963
Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life.
Open your eyes, soldier,” Tatiana said fondly, caressing his face.“Are you hungry?” “I was hungry,” Alexander said. “But you fed me.” His body was sh….
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, I love you. Do you hear me? I love you like I’ve never loved anyone in my whole life. Now, get up. For me, Tatia. For me, please get up and ….
He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through ….
Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If You are there….
Alexander tilted his head and kissed her deeply on the lips. He let go of her hands, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, pressing herself again….
I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going.
Courage, Alexander,” she whispered. “Courage, Tatiana..
Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana.
Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay..
You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're d….
Tania,” he whispers, “promise me you won’t forget me when I die.” “You won’t die, soldier,” she says. “You won’t die. Live! Live on, breathe on, claw….
The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have..
I love you breathlessly, my amazing man..
Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman..
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….
Here, take this, she would say, take this, and tell me where he is. Tell me whether he's dead or alive, so I can walk as his widow or his wife. No on….
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 na….
Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life..
Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort..