Dennis Lehane Quotes - Page 3

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• She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.

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  Brain, Insects, Whim

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Shutter Island”, p.221, Hachette UK

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• It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning philosophical - that maybe they HAD gotten in that car. All three of them. And what they now thought of as their life was just a dream state. That all three of them were, in reality, still eleven-year-old boys trapped in some cellar, imagining what they'd become if they ever escaped and grew up.

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  Dream, Philosophical, Boys

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• We were supposed to grow old together, Dolores. Have kids. Take walks under old trees. I wanted to watch the lines etch themselves into your flesh and know when each and every one of them appeared. Die together.

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  Kids, Tree, Together

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• My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your ear canals like hot glass. No matter how much I love my daughter, I will never love her squealing. Or maybe I will. Maybe I do. Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can’t remember when a block of it didn’t rest on top of my heart. I love what, if broken, can’t be repaired. What, if lost can’t be replaced. I love my burdens.

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  Daughter, Stress, Block

  "Moonlight Mile". Book by Dennis Lehane, 2011.

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• Believe it or not, Marshal, I believe in talk therapy, basic interpersonal skills. I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect and listen to what he's trying to tell you, you just might reach him. (87)

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  Believe, Skills, Ideas

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• I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

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  Golf, Play, Awful

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• I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

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  Home, Kids, Catholic

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• I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.

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  Growing Up, Blessed, Home

  "A life in writing: Dennis Lehane". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2009.

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• The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

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  Loneliness, Warning, Lays

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Prayers For Rain”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

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  Saws, Cameras, Lenses

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Shutter Island”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.

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  Lost Love, Ruins, Made

  Dennis Lehane (2009). “The Given Day: A Novel”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

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  Lying, Accepted, Leaks

  Dennis Lehane (2006). “Coronado LP”, WmMorrow

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• L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who fuel our hate and our narrow views and tell us it's simply a matter of getting back to basics while they sit in their beachfront properties and listen to the surf so they won't have to hear the screams of the drowning.

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  Hate, Views, Cities

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• And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)

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  Pain, Heart, Blood

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• A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.

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  Girl, Kids, Eye

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• How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it.

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  Eight, Doe, Psychiatrist

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• Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?...Gods don't think they can become men.

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  Men, Thinking, Differences

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• Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How many?” “Fish,” Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.

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  Laughing, Doe, Hey

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• What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?

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  Girl, Law, Names

  Dennis Lehane (2012). “Live by Night: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well... Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.

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  Vanity, Self, Weakness

  "A Drink Before the War". Book by Dennis Lehane, November 1994.

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• Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it’s indelibly her own.

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  Pain, Ivy, Voice

  "Visitation Street". Book by Ivy Pochoda, 2013.

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• Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'

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  Usa, Buttons, Asking

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• Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

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  Luxury, Essentials, Purity

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Shutter Island”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

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  Epic, Thinking, Television

  "Dennis Lehane Exclusive Interview – The Great Crime-Novelist Talks SHUTTER ISLAND, ANIMAL RESCUE, THE GIVEN DAY, More!". Interview with Ti Alan Chase, collider.com. May 28, 2010.

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