Please don't die," she whispered. "I don't think I can bury you. I already buried everyone else." "How can I die," Alexander said, his voice breaking, "when you have poured your immortal blood into me?

A bus came. The soldier turned away from her and walked toward it. Tatiana watched him. Even his walk was from another world; the step was too sure, the stride too long, yet somehow it all seemed right, looked right, felt right. It was like stumbling on a book you thought you had lost. Ah, yes, there it is.

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

The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

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