"If you want to get technical, everyone I grew up with was probably a petty criminal, one way or another, not out of badness but because that was how people got by. Half the Place was on the dole and all of them did nixers, specially when the beginning of the school year was coming up and the kids needed books and uniforms." Chapter 2, Page 31

"Six gardens. Seven counting the Daly's. Rosie could still be waiting for me in any one of them." Chapter 5, Page 67

"I looked at him, standing there in his Ralph Lauren logos and his snazzy watch and his slick upmarket haircut, all full up with righteous indignation and looking a thousand miles out of place. I thought of him as a skinny cowlicky kid in my patched hand-me-downs, running wild in and out of this house without ever realizing it wasn't good enough." Chapter...