So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets.