If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.

I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk.

If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.

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.

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

Shaw...has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her?" "Good God, no," Gideon replied with a snicker. "Shaws don't write poetry. They pay others to write it for them and then take the credit for it.

Oh, I have a very pure soul. It's only my private parts that have gotten me into trouble".