Dennis Lehane Short Quotes

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I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum.

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Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

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It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

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

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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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He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

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The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.

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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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This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

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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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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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How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade...

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That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

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I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn't raise the gun to my head fast enough.

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I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party.

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The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.

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Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

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