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)

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.

I want you to know that should something happen to me, don’t worry about my body. My soul isn’t going to return to it, nor to God. It’s flying straight to you, where it knows it can find you, in Lazarevo. I want to be neither with kings nor heroes, but with the queen of Lake Ilmen.

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

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 body turned, and look for his face. The evening minute as she hurried down the street, her happiness curling her mouth upward to the white sky, the red wings speeding her to him, to look up at him and smile.

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

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.