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“What's your name?""Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?""Wanted.""By all the girls or just the law?”
“Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart.”
“We all know who you are, Mr. Coughlin. Famous Yankee gangster. Friend of the colonel. It would be safer for a man to swim into the middle of the ocean and cut his own throat than to threaten you.' ...”
“You, you buy into all this stuff about good guys and bad guys in the world. A loan shark breaks a guy's leg for not paying his debt, a banker throws a guy out of his home for the same reason, and y...”
“When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outl...”
