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

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 important, ask yourself, what do you love?

Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

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

We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.

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