“My mother and Alexis had said no more than ten words to each other. The long silences were deafening”

“There’s a Russian proverb: To taste the ocean, all you need is one gulp.”

“A soldier never goes to war without his weapon.”

“Neither your work to be with insensible, nor their work to be with you.”

“who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet..”