Rubies from Burma Quotes

“I didn't know then that the sweet life could be like honeysuckle smothering a barbed-wire fence.”
― Anne Lovett, Rubies from Burma

“The wheel of fortune turns continuously, Duke told me. The first shall be last and the last shall be first. We like to talk about love being forever, and maybe on some level, love is. But the form of love changes as the wheel goes on.”
― Anne Lovett, Rubies from Burma: A WWII Coming of Age Novel