33 Quotes by Mary Beth Keane

And while he lightened her burden, he felt he’d lightened his, too. It was the truth, what he’d said.

Isn’t that what every minority in this city has to deal with every single day? Whole groups being judged based on the actions of a few?

There was no predicting where life would go. There was no real way for a person to try something out, see if he liked it – the words he’d chosen when he told his uncle Patsy that he’d gotten into the police academy – because you try it and try it and try it a little longer and next thing it’s who you are.

He felt lost long before his mother left his life, he wanted to tell her, but it would ruin their dinner, their night. He thought of Frankie and Molly doing their homework with music and talking and laughter in the background. The doorbell ringing, kids stopping by, Kate on the phone, pots boiling over, everything a chaos of love. Then he thought of himself at their ages, alone in a silent house, listening for a creak on the stairs.

There was no real way for a person to try something out, see if he liked it... because you try it and try it and try it a little longer and next thing it’s who you are.

A brand new person, made of nothing.