Quotes from book

The Summer Garden

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

“…. 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.”

“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.”

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

“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”

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

“We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.”