I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.

I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.

Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.

Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.

He sent you to redeem me, to comfort me, and to heal me—and that’s just so far,” he added with a smile.

Tatia: I think its too big to fit

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