i saw someone else's review where they said " 

i absolutely loved this book; my body, my limbs, and my soul ache with it "you gave me your heart, marya antonova, and i will keep it safe until my dying day. i'll keep it safe and in return, you'll have my heart forever until someone cuts it out of my fucking chest." 

LIKE no shit but i expected dimitri to be so douchebag-ish yk typical superior snob boy BUT NO i loved the way he surrenders to masha and did not argue WHEN I READ HIS LINES I IMAGINE IT TO BE SOFT SPOKEN WITH HIS EYES SO COMFORTING 
"together, we could be everything." 

his weakness, his achilles' heel is masha just as hers is dima. i want a love like theirs- the kind that would burn the world. "
which i thought summed it up perfectly. this book kept crumbling me just to put me back together, i love lev and sasha and im so happy the ending was happy but also so bittersweet. forever will dima and masha be engraved in my brain. THE WRITTING. the intentional acts and romeo and juliet quotes. it was everything i wanted.