"He watched her size him up. He watched her face go slowly slack, watched her make herself not say she wasn't going anywhere, watched her swallow her desire to ask to hear the story. She didn't say a word." Book 1, Chapter 2, pg. 16

"It's hell when the person you know you are isn't the person people see when they look at you." Book 2, Chapter 3, pg. 40

"Kay both did and didn't want to ask whose boathouse this was. What stopped her wasn't fear of the answer. It was fear of Michael not wanting to be asked." Book 2, Chapter 4, pg. 46

"The more exceptional a person becomes, the more his place in the world seeks a similar extreme." Book 3, Chapter 12, pg. 147

"'I don't gotta tell you,' Narducci told him, 'a lot of men in our tradition, if one of their friends has a heart attack they start plotting revenge against God...