- Countess Rostova: Why are you wandering about like a restless spirit? What do you want?
- Natasha Rostova: Him. I want him. Now. This minute. Oh Mama, don't look at me. Don't look or I shall cry.
- Countess Rostova: Come here. Come and sit by me.
- Natasha Rostova: Oh Mama, I must have him. Get him for me. I can't stand it any longer. I'm being wasted. Wasted.
- Uncle: Where, my precious, did you learn to dance like that? Not from that family of yours. Not from any teacher. You're a child of the steppes, a real child of the steppes.
- Pierre Bezukhov: My wife, who lives in a separate set of rooms in this great house, continues to be the most sought-after hostess. She entertains regularly, and all the important figures of our time pass through her salon. It is incredible. She says the most commonplace things, and everyone discovers the profoundest meaning in them. What is the matter with the world?
- Natasha Rostova: It's nice having you home. Makes it feel more like old times. I wish one didn't have to grow up.
- Nikolai Rostov: Why?
- Natasha Rostova: Oh, I don't know. Do you ever get the feeling that there's nothing left to happen, as if everything nice is already in the past?
- Nikolai Rostov: Yes. I get that feeling sometimes. As if everything's going all right, and everyone's in high spirits. Quite suddenly you feel sick of it all. As if there's nothing left but to die.
- Pierre Bezukhov: I agreed to act as initiator for him into the masonic lodge. I didn't want to, but it was hard to refuse. He has no belief in anything, or desire to find the truth, but sees freemasonry as an opportunity to get to know the right people.