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

When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.

You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.

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?

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-

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.