“A mixed up knot of incompatible roles, tied up too tight to know where one ended and another began.”

“Every conversation they had anymore it felt like instead of unraveling the mystery, it just further entangled all of them into a twisted never-ending knot.”

“She wished with one part of her soul this weren’t real and with the other that it was, but wasn’t it just another goodbye either way?”

“Yes, life was made up of these instances in time. Big moments hidden inside little decisions.”

“Luchese lit his cigar and pushed up the sleeves of his jacket as if preparing for work. Bring it on, fuckface, James thought. It was hard to take seriously a man that wasn’t smart enough to just take the damn jacket off.”

“...for there is nothing so perfect as a thing with no ending and no beginning, such as a family of souls intertwined.”

“Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason.”