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

“In fact, there was a sort of satisfaction and pride in knowing that Kiki was his. Other men could look, they could envy, they could even covet, but she was going home with him. Every. Time.”

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

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

“It was a sickening, humbling, maddeningly powerless sensation this watching them and waiting for them to come to him. For the time they could be a family again. But Mickey did it like one’s tongue pointlessly finds a mouth sore over and over again, half to see if it was still there, half to see if it still hurt.”

“Skate, you’re about to pop the best wheelie of your life.”

“Never negotiate with terrorists, make bargains with mobsters, or drive downtown on game day. Some things are just a given.”