"Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a pos...












One that society can't forgive, but I can.
More Dennis Lehane quotes
"It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.
"Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.
"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...
"Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to look it in the face or live with the comfort of ig...
"Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.
"But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.
"She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and ...
"Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest rec...
"Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.