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.

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

....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.

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?

Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.

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

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.