Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.

I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.

Tatia: I think its too big to fit

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

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

You have amazing gifts. Don't squander them. Don't give them out meaninglessly, don't abuse them, don't take them for granted. You are the weapon you carry with you till the day you die. -Tatiana and Alexander

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