Second of All Quotes

“Oh, the sweet, painful pleasure of anticipation!”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All

“She smelled like vanilla spice, or pumpkin pie, or something sweet yet sinful.”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All

“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.”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All

“Mary girl, life is as simple as we let it be.”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All

“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?”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All

“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.”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All

“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?”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All

“No, nothing much had changed in the old neighborhood. She was still just an actress in someone else’s play.”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All

“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.”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All

“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.”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All

“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.”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All

“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.”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All

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

“...for there is nothing so perfect as a thing with no ending and no beginning, such as a family of souls intertwined.”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All

“Intentions were powerful things.”
― Genevieve Dewey, Second of All