A Crime in the Neighborhood Quotes

“He’s a real romantic,” said my mother. “Romantics are usually bastards, in case you haven’t noticed.”
― Suzanne Berne, A Crime in the Neighborhood

“He was a mostly mild man with a weakness for passion, a suburban father burdened with the heart of a Russian hero without any sort of balancing grand intellect or ironic world view. The yearning itself, the recklessness, that’s what lured him.”
― Suzanne Berne, A Crime in the Neighborhood

“He was a true voluptuary, in his own modest way, with a voluptuary’s genius for softening the world around him.”
― Suzanne Berne, A Crime in the Neighborhood