Sometimes I see her face in my dreams,” he said. “I can’t wait to remember the woman it belongs to.

If one spends too many hours in solitude, one starts to emote for one’s own benefit.

We were a mess of cultures, and nothing matched, but I found it all the more fun for that.

In my heart, I love books, I love writing. I love the lines of letters on a page.

The country is not there to lull you any more than I was. The people there don’t think they are different, they are going about their normal business, and sometimes I felt that, while you respected me more than other men, you romanticized me. Someone or someplace that is romanticized can’t be real.

I don’t want to become a queen to someone’s king,” Violet said fiercely. “I want to be queen on my own.

The worst thing wasn’t something terrible, it was the lack of anything wonderful.

Once you commit to something, you just manage through each moment. And nothing truly awful happened. The voyage over was uneventful. I found work right away, just not very good work. The worst thing wasn't something terrible, it was the lack of anything wonderful.

Her best smile seemed to be for him alone.

Sometimes I see her face in my dreams," he said. "I can't wait to remember the woman it belongs to.