When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outlaw;...
What's your name?Emma Gould, she said. What's yours?Wanted.By all the girls or just the law?
As they've always been. And they don't change just because you want them to.
People surprise you sometimes.
Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.
He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie.
This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.
Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage without a scroll button?
People were lost and people were scared and their lynch ropes couldn't reach bankers or stockbrokers, so they looked for targets closer to home.
He gave her a long, worried look, but cars were stacking up behind them and dusk was gathering. A horn blared. Then another. He handed her a business card—Kenny’s Cabinets—and told her to call him any...
Baby, why are you all wet?
Teddy laughed, heard the sound of it carry off on the sweep of night air and dissolve in the distant surf, as if it had never been, as if the island and the sea and the salt took what you thought you...
We're humans, so we're messy
It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautiful woman.
It was like sitting through a movie, no matter how boring or confusing, until the end. Because at the end, sometimes things were explained or the ending itself was cool enough that you felt like sitti...
He lay on his side, looking out at the sea. So blue at this time of day, so vibrant as the afternoon died around it. He lay there feeling the breeze on his face and the sea spreading out forever under...
Goddamn embarrassing what a civilian you've become, man.
Danny would have thought it comical if it had come from any other source, on any other day, in any other country. But Curtis had come to the table with something they'd never expected, something they...
We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing's built to last, not even shame.
—Me gustaría quedarme contigo, Patrick. ¿Te parece bien? —Es la mejor oferta que he recibido este año, Ange.