Al Capone Shines My Shoes Quotes

“flowers”
― Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Shines My Shoes

“Not many kids can say that when their toilet is stopped up, they get Seven Fingers, the ax murderer, to help them out, either.”
― Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Shines My Shoes

“Finding a note in the pocket of my shirt was bad enough. Messing with my pillow . . . that’s something else again. A guy’s pillow is personal, you know?”
― Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Shines My Shoes

“Once when Natalie was little, a doctor told us what she had was contagious. If we kept her at home with us, you could catch it from her. He said we should send her away to a ranch in Arizona where she would be quarantined so as not to infect others.”
― Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Shines My Shoes

“My dad told me all about it. Wildness comes over teenagers like a disease and they go around kissing all over the place.”
― Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Shines My Shoes

“Natalie’s not buggy, she just thinks a different way.” The words shoot out of me before I can stop them. I know my dad would not like me talking to the warden and Trixle like this. “Is that so?” Trixle asks. “Yes, sir.” I nod to the warden. “It is.”
― Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Shines My Shoes

“They have roses: red, yellow, and pink. My gut pinches when I see how expensive they are. How can something you can just pick cost so much? I don’t have enough for a dozen, but I can buy a half dozen. Will that be enough? “What color?” Annie asks. “Yellow,” I tell the man behind the counter. “I’d go with red. Yellow is friendship. Red is, you know . . .” Annie moves her almost-white eyebrows up and down. “That’s why I want yellow,” I insist.”
― Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Shines My Shoes

“We’ve been three people and an octopus all of my life, and now the octopus is gone.”
― Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Shines My Shoes

“WELKUM HOM NADALEE”
― Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Shines My Shoes

“Well then. You better make sure your wife can play too. That’s my advice to you, Matthew Flanagan,”
― Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Shines My Shoes

“But trust them? Not on your life.”
― Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Shines My Shoes

“Treat a man like a dog, he’ll act like a dog. Treat a man with respect, he’ll remember that too.”
― Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Shines My Shoes