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“The bitch,” Bobby said sarcastically. “The nerve of the woman. Going in and bringing cake—there was cake, right?” When Tommy nodded, Bobby went on. “That is some messed-up devil-woman shit. Thinking she can slide in under your radar like that! That’s right out of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Maybe she’ll try to cook them next!”
― J.H. Knight, The Last Thing He Needs

“There comes a point, Tom, where martyrdom for its own sake is ill-advised.” He did step back then, but only to take Max from Carrie as they made it to the bottom of the stairs. With the baby calming down, Bobby looked at Tommy again. “When you’re ready to un-nail yourself from that cross you carry around, let me know.”
― J.H. Knight, The Last Thing He Needs

“Have you met the woman?”
Bobby considered the question and looked like he agreed, but he said, “She’s not totally unreasonable, Tom.”
“What, are you kidding me? She’s you. Only it’s impossible to argue with someone that’s that nice and little and old and a woman. Especially one that’s so goddamned obsessively determined. It’s like someone threw Pollyanna, Mary Sunshine, and Mussolini into a blender and it spit your mother out.”
“You forgot Mother Teresa.”
“Yeah, her too. Thank God we don’t have leprosy.”
― J. H. Knight

“The things that make your heart sing,” she said quietly, “are the things that should be shared.”
― J.H. Knight, The Last Thing He Needs

“Their lives weren’t perfect. Their family wasn’t perfect. Just like Max and Zoe’s winter clothes, not so long ago, their family was a tapestry of patches and cheap thread. Parts of the pattern were too ugly to look at, and some parts were so beautiful they could bring tears to your eyes. They were all wading through the rocky waters of life and forgiveness and hope together, with only a few bumps and scrapes along the way.”
― J.H. Knight, The Last Thing He Needs

“Colleen shook her head. “You’re an asshole.”
“So I’ve been told. I’m thinking about having it printed on a T-shirt.”
“Trust me,” Colleen laughed. “You don’t need it on a shirt. Most people can tell the first time you open your mouth.”
― J. H. Knight

“But that night, looking up into Bobby’s flushed face, looking into his eyes for maybe the first time when they were together, Tommy understood in one fraction of a heartbeat every love song he’d ever heard, every dream he was afraid to have, every memory of anything good that had ever happened to him. It was all wrapped up in Bobby. He was the music, he was the dream, he was the love, and… he was the hope.”
― J.H. Knight, The Last Thing He Needs

“I want a partner too, but,” Tommy paused there and then said softly, “I need you to teach me how.”
― J.H. Knight, The Last Thing He Needs