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.

Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.

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

Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana

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?

Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to the wall, again to the wall, the wall, as ever. Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won't you, and I'll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everyone does. But my innocence is forever gone.

Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.