If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.

He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through her teeth, tears streaming down her face, "for your brave and indifferent face, Alexander!" She groaned in pain. "Not for your brave and indifferent heart.

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

Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most important, ask yourself, what do you love?

If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.

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

There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.