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

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 there is a God?

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 name, you'll know that it's me, calling for you... calling you back to Lazarevo. (Alexander)

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.

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

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

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.