Jesus, Dolores, you've got to get yourself together. You've got responsibilities. Think about those sometimes - okay? - and get your fucking head right.Those were the last words his wife heard from hi...
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?
Baby, why are you all wet?
As they've always been. And they don't change just because you want them to.
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?
Only a child thinks life is about her wants.
Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.
Latvian émigrés. How
Goddamn embarrassing what a civilian you've become, man.
He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie.
We're humans, so we're messy
I love my burdens.
She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest.
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.
Plans are just dreams until they're executed.
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...
It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautiful woman.
I am still afraid. But I am not terrified.