There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

He sent you to redeem me, to comfort me, and to heal me—and that’s just so far,” he added with a smile.

Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence

All good things come to those who wait.

This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through.