She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that explained my biggest secret: that I might not have OI but I knew how he (Adam) felt. That I was breaking apart, too, all the time."-Amelia

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

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.