“Mace growled and wondered how much prison time a man would do for tossing his sister into the East River.”
“He growled. Really, how attached could Smitty be to his sister? Would he really notice if Mace killed her?”
“He's just watching out for you, Desiree.' Dee patted Mace's arm. 'Bless his heart.'Mace growled. 'I know that's not a compliment, Dee-Ann.”
“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.”
“In the prison of his daysTeach the free man how to praise”
“Mace watched his beautiful sister. She took after their mother. He took after his father. And they got along about as well as that pair did.”