Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay..

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow..

Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort..

This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me..

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

Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana.

The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time that bathed her w….

Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering….

Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Good-bye, and may you find a better life, find comf….

Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry..

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….

Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life..

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it..

Tatiana...you and I had only one moment..." said Alexander. "A single moment in time, in your time and mine...one instant, when another life could ha….

We can’t forget that I owe you my life.” She gazed at him. “We can’t forget that I belong to you.” “I like that sound of that,” Alexander said, huggi….

You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself..

Tatiana said. "Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I'm-" "Blind!", Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood, desolately failing in t….

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving..

Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return..

Shura...are you...in love with me?" "Turn to me," Alexander said. She turned. "Tatia, I worship you. I'm crazy in love with you. I want you to marry ….

"Alexander, were you looking for me?" "All my life.".