It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.

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.

Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.

Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.