I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

It's a strange life, isn't it? ...A Rom with no tribe. No matter how hard you look, you can never find a home. Because to us, home is not a building or a tent or a vardo... home is a family.

You shouldn’t rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.

The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult to understand. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.