Dennis Lehane Quotes

Joe knew what the nod meant-this was why they became outlaws. To live moments the insurance salesman...

he'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrus...

Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve’s hand—they’d have preferred him dead. Death...

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men

He was broad-shouldered, dark-haired and dark-eyed; more than once, women had been noted openly rega...

I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn’...

How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Wh...

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her...

One that society can't forgive, but I can.

Jesus, Dolores, you've got to get yourself together. You've got responsibilities. Think about those ...

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosag...

She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth...

But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would ...

Got us a full moon too coming tomorrow night. Just make things a whole lot worse. All we need.- Why ...

Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at ...

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had a...

Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.

Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. B...

He’d never wanted kids. Outside of priority boarding on an airline, he couldn’t see the upside to th...

The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was muc...

Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to ...

I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made t...

She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and...

How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?

There's always a 'she'. Isn't there?

...you have to bear witness to your dead. You simply have to. You have to step into their energy fie...

We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing's built to last, not even shame.

It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a poin...

Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their ...

Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.

Lately, though, he'd just been tired in general. Tired of people. Tired of books and TV and the nigh...

All the stuff our fathers took for granted as long as you worked hard, the great safety net and the ...

It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautif...

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage wit...

The sound of her breathing reminded me, as it so often did, of how vulnerable she was. And how vulne...

Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against h...

We all know who you are, Mr. Coughlin. Famous Yankee gangster. Friend of the colonel. It would be sa...

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

You, you buy into all this stuff about good guys and bad guys in the world. A loan shark breaks a gu...

When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family an...

When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And t...

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

Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.

I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time se...

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks ...

Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.

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

It’s impossible to park on Tremont or even idle there for more than thirty seconds. A platoon of met...

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It...

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves...

And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. T...

Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happin...

Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commerc...

When they'd first come out in the morning, a single flounder lay flapping and puffing in the breezew...

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes,...

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.