“I love the life I live, I live the life I love.”

“Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.”

“I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.”

“I have realized that the moondid not have to be full for us to love it.That we are not tragediesstranded here beneath it.”

“And I know I’m not perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.”

“I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hated myself.”

“I can't be a cream puff.”