I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I a….

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….

Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll ….

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….

Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life.

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.

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….

I love you breathlessly, my amazing man..

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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..

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

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

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?.

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….

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….

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

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 ….