Some folks are happier not being saved.

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.

Cam had once told her that the Rom believed the entire world was their home. As long as you were with your family you were home.

Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Pretend you're mine," he urged, his arms closing around her. "Just for a minute. Pretend there's never been anyone but me, that I'm the one you're promised to. Do it for me....I'll never ask again.

I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.