Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don't think too much about it. You get the best you can and do without when necessary, and hope to God you won't be wiped out by something you can't control. But there are moments it hurts, where there is something you want in the very marrow of your bones and you know there is no way you can have it.

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

I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.

I still don’t get why I have to eat breakfast if you don’t,” Josie muttered. “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

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

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

I thought about the future, the oceans and continents he would cross, far away from everyone who knew and loved him. Far outside the sphere of his mothers prayers. Among the women of the future, there was one who would know his secrets and bear his children, and witness the changes the years worked on him. And it wouldnt be me. -Liberty Jones