Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.

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 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.

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

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

I'm not hungry," Alexander whispered. "I'm famished. Watch out for me. Now, don't make a single sound," he said, moving on top of her. "Tania, God....I'll cover your mouth, just like this, and you hold on to me, just like this, and I'm going to-just like this-

If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.