Alexander tilted his head and kissed her deeply on the lips. He let go of her hands, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, pressing herself against him. They kissed as if in a fever... they kissed as if the breath were leaving their bodies.

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

Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my 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.

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.

Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life