Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.

Tatia: I think its too big to fit

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

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

Tatiana...you and I had only one moment..." said Alexander. "A single moment in time, in your time and mine...one instant, when another life could have still been possible." He kissed her lips. "Do you know what I'm talking about?" When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street. "I know that moment," whispered Tatiana.

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

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