“[Jonah Griggs] is similar to a hawke and a wolf and Will Trombal – he mates for life.”
“But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.”
“His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs”
“Jonah Griggs. Not just a name but a state of mind I never want to revisit, although I do keep him at the back of my mind for those times I get me hopes raised about something. So then I can slap myself into reality and remind myself of what happens when you let someone into your sacred space. Jonah Griggs is my second reminder to never ever trust another human being. My mother was first.”
“Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs madecomments about his mother.Raffy touches the car with her finger in a very dramatic way."You've just made our hit list," he says, getting a hanky out of his pocket and cleaning off some imaginary mark.”
“The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths.”
“This is war," he say quietly."Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.”