Genevieve Dewey Quotes

#1. A mixed up knot of incompatible roles, tied up too tight to know where one ended and another began. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#2. The truth is a community is as big or as small as your heart lets it be. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#3. For there is nothing so perfect as a thing with no ending and no beginning, such as a family of souls intertwined. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#4. No, nothing much had changed in the old neighborhood. She was still just an actress in someone else's play. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#5. 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? - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#6. Skate, if it were possible to choose who we fall in love with, no one would ever get it done, because we'd all be chasing after this ideal person who doesn't even exist. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#7. Y'ever notice that sometimes we get so focused on the path we're treadin' that we lose sight of where we're goin' in the first place? - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#8. Never negotiate with terrorists, make bargains with mobsters, or drive downtown on game day. Some things are just a given. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#9. 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. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#10. It wasn't his job to keep tabs on mob princesses, but this one was sort of a hobby. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#11. Skate, you're about to pop the best wheelie of your life. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#12. It isn't things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#13. His face burst into a prism of colors and light as her eyes welled with tears and when they fell down her cheeks it felt like fire. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#14. Intentions were powerful things. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#15. Just one word, infused with naked desperation; half prayer, half enchantment. It felt like a freezing charm on her soul making her his prisoner, yet setting her free all at once. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#16. I want to be with you, Demetria. Go on dates, have sex and pointless arguments, figure out why you like to eat rabbit food, be the person you call first when you've had a bad day, come over and hold your hair when you're sick. How much clearer can I make this? - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#17. 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. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#18. You bring any cannoli?' Mickey whispered, trying to downplay his worry with humor.
'No, but I'm keeping my gun no matter what he says. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#19. As trite as the thought was, even her butterflies got the butterflies with just a tilt of his lips, and it had always been so. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#20. Mary girl, life is as simple as we let it be. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#21. And maybe then when they were all a family, Tommy would be able to see what Mary used to see, what his other children saw, not just a man who would kill for them but a man who would die for them ... the man underneath it all. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#22. Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#23. This was like discovering your vanilla cupcake had a chocolate fudge center. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#24. 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. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#25. She smelled like vanilla spice, or pumpkin pie, or something sweet yet sinful. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#26. Just because the bully was always nice to you, never stole your lunch money, didn't make him any less of a bully, did it? - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#27. Oh, the sweet, painful pleasure of anticipation! - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#28. Women were tricky creatures under the best of circumstances. This was not the best of circumstances. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#29. Kyle, you are a mellow dude ... You can't be with an agitator. And that's what she is. An agitator. She's a Jackson Pollock and you're a Thomas Kinkade. - Author: Genevieve Dewey

#30. Yes, life was made up of these instances in time. Big moments hidden inside little decisions. - Author: Genevieve Dewey