Open your eyes, soldier,” Tatiana said fondly, caressing his face.“Are you hungry?” “I was hungry,” Alexander said. “But you fed me.” His body was shaking underneath his sheet.

You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.

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

Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.

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.

Here, take this, she would say, take this, and tell me where he is. Tell me whether he's dead or alive, so I can walk as his widow or his wife. No one would, or could, tell her, and so she continued to cook, and to learn new things all the while searching for an answer among the outcasts. The way he carried his body, the way he walked in my life, Tatiana thought, declared that he was the only man I had ever loved, and he knew it. And until I was alone without him, I thought it was all worth it.

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