There were times in life when you had to take a risk that might end in failure. Because otherwise you would be haunted by what you hadn’t done... the paths you hadn’t taken, the things you hadn’t experienced.

If you married me,it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you." "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters marry Gypsies. Those doors have already been closed, bolted, and nailed shut.

There's nothing worse than breaking a promise to someone who cares about you.

When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.

You know what it is you smell on him, Haven? Testosterone. It's leaking out of his pores.

Somehow I knew that no matter what I chose to tell or to keep secret, he would understand.

You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could go where I wouldn't love you. Nothing you could do to stop me.