“Elena, we have a business relationship which has profited us both immensely. Let's keep it that way. What was between us is part of past. Anastasia is my future, and I won't jeopardize it in any way, so cut the fucking crap.”
“Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but honor and death.”
“Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.”
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”
“We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.”
“it doesn’t matter where we are going, or what the future brings and what people might do to us, the past always comes back one way or another.”