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These three things:the smell of Shepelevo, the smell of the Metro and the taste of creme brulee ice cream. The essence of my childhood in Russia.

Her once twinkling green eyes set deep into the pale features looked as if they were the only ghastly crystal barriers between strangers and her soul.

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

How instant it was, desire. It was like a bomb exploding, fragmenting and igniting all her nerve endings.

I can't do it," Tatiana said "I can't walk down the streets of our life with you."
"I know." They turned back to the reflections in the mirror.

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

People don't change, Esther" said Harry "Leaves change

The struggle doesn't end just because you know the way. That's when it's only beginning.

He's not dead. He is still alive, and while he is alive, he is mine.

Love is, to be loved," said Alexander, "in return.

Mankind has never invented a weapon that they did not use sooner or later.

And when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I'll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face.

What, what? What do you need, son?" Alexander kept saying.
Anthony's only arm was around his father's shoulder. "A fucking cigarette.

Do you remember what you're supposed to do now? Kiss the palm of your hand and press it against your heart.

Pregnant. You come to see me for one weekend, and here

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

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

Tatia, let me take care of you. He stopped and took a breath.

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

Do you need me to com ewith you? She'll need a stretcher," Kashnikov said.
"No she won't," said Alexander. "iI'll carry her myself.

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

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

Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.

We will call him Anthony Alexander Barrington. After my father and brother. We'll call him Alexander.

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

Father continues to make the vulgar error," she said, "that to a woman, love is her whole existence.

What strength he once possessed had left his body and gone to a tiny girl with freckles.

We're not nomads, we're not gypsies! We have a home!

No. You didn't start with me. I came to you because you already had yourself

Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?

Someday we'll meet in Lvov, my love and I.

journal, not looking at Alexander, even when

What were you doing fighting with me at Kirov, knowing all this was stacked against us?

Raging against my fate.

m young and fit to toil long

Marx himself wrote that capitalism produces above all its own gravediggers. Do you think that perhaps he wasn't talking about capitalism?

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.

Courage, Alexander.....
Courage, Tatiana

I didn't know how to live my life, and suddenly I was thrust into it and had no choice but to live it.

You sweet thing," he murmured. "You're the sweetest thing. I don't know what to do, what to do, Tania." He kissed her lips

They had no past. They had no future. They just were.

Dasha bent him to her and kissed him on the mouth. And kissed him and kissed him. And kissed him.

Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence

All good things come to those who wait.

I saved you for me.

Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life.

Hello, Tatiana. I'm Alexander. Have we met before?

Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.

Who said memory is kind? Memory is merciless. My father was right. 'All the things you want to remember, Paullina, I want to forget'.

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

there is one place I'm comforted. I wake up there, and I go to sleep there; I am at peace there, and loved there: your subsuming arms. Tatiana

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

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his eyes.

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

Alexander looked into the barrel of one of the guns. He blinked.
O God, please look after Tania all alone in the world.

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

Slightly less time than it takes one woman to make one life, they managed to snuff out a million and a half lives.

You want to know what I thought of in that boat?
I thought, I have to stay alive. Tatiasha will never forgive me.

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

The sponge of my heart had been filled up sometime last evening and had begun to drip.

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.

Be my comfort, come away with me. Rise up and come away, my beloved.

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

This Zippo read, 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil.. for I'm the baddest motherfucker in the valley.

Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.

Alexander was silent. "Now you're really tiny," he said at last. "I'm not tiny," she returned. "You're just outsized." Blushing, she lowered her gaze.

I just don't know how I'm going to survive you, Tatiana.

Only one bear eats from this honey pot, Tatia

Tatiana heard Alexander say, "Don't bother with shots. Pour mine straight into a glass." "Good man," said Papa, pouring him a glass.

Tania." Her voice was soothing. "There is a second love. And a third love. And if you're lucky, a fourth and a fifth, too.

Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but
old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.

Where your treasure is, there your hear will be also

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

I love you breathlessly, my amazing man.

Ladies," Alexander said, his arm around Tatiana's neck, "we're newlyweds." He raised his eyebrows. "Do you really want us in your house?

Emotion was pressing hard on her chest, making it difficult for her to breathe. I don't need to breathe now, she thought. I've breathed all my life.

A good man has as much chance of dying as a bad one. Maybe more so.

I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.

Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.

Tatia: I think its too big to fit

She hadn't meant to do it. Falling this crashingly in love with Spencer didn't take Lily by accident. It took her by storm.

Tatiana had always thought she would not make a very good Communist. She liked Mikhail Zoshchenko's stories too much.

The presence of so many words inside her head made her incapable of small talk, just at the time when she needed small talk most.

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

Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.

He soaped her like he loved her, held her like he loved her, loved her like he loved her.

What little I had was all for you. It was you who was everybody else's. But I was only yours.

She was entrenched. She had dug a trench all around herself called Alexander , and she couldn't leave.

Never forget where you came from, Gina Attaviano, Alessandro said to her before he died. Then it will always be easy.

He is just protective over me-" "Not protective, Tania. Consumed.

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

I want to meet this one," he said. "I need to meet the girl who has taken our wandering Alexander's horse and cart.

Alexander Barrington, I want forever love in you.

Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.

You're to need a lot more strength when you hear what I'm about to you

It wasn't first love. It wasn't a first kiss. But it was love nonetheless. And the kiss was sweet. And the heart still pounded. And the girl went on.

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.