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….

He sent you to redeem me, to comfort me, and to heal me—and that’s just so far,” he added with a smile..

....and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I’ll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face..

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled..

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.

Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Mo….

You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from….

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….

Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pa….

There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for..

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end..

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….

He is just protective over me-” “Not protective, Tania. Consumed..

I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you n….

All good things come to those who wait..

But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans….

Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days, of the hat in his hands, w….

Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you, now on top of you with this sco….

In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the….

Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together..

Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back..