Live as if you have faith,” she said, “and faith shall be given to you.

I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going

"Alexander, were you looking for me?" "All my life."

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

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.

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

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