Dennis Lehane Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Your father picks you up from prison in a stolen Dodge Neon with an 8-ball in the glove
compartment and a hooker named Mandy in the back seat.
compartment and a hooker named Mandy in the back seat.
She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.
Cawley probably wasn't used to questions that continued after he'd shown displeasure with them, so they gave him a minute to catch his breath.
He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie.
Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart.
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.
Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.
I don't have room in my heart for most people. Got nothing against them, but I got nothing for them, either.
We met when we were both majoring in Space Invaders with a Pub Etiquette minor at the Happy Harbor Campus of UMass/Boston.
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.
Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.
Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love.
Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.
For a moment-maybe even a succession of moments and none sharp enough to point to as the cause-he'd been happy.
The trick, Teddy had long since learned, was to stay busy and stay focused. They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running.
Music" - he smiled his glorious smile and raised his index finger - "music speaks for the soul because words are too small.
Rumors or no, Thomas, if the men strike, we'll see fecal gravity at work like never before. Ain't a man in this room who won't be covered in shit.
I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.
The truth of himself was a lonely boy in an empty house, waiting for someone to knock on his bedroom door and ask if he was okay.
Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.
This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.
It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautiful woman.
The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.
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.
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
You was in all sorts of places, huh?" "Yeah, I was. Saw the world." "What'd you think of it?" "Different languages, same shit.
I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.
Sometimes, when outrage begat outrage with enough frequency, it threatened the fabric of the universe, and the universe pushed back.
Monsters don't dress like monsters; they dress like humans. Even stranger, they rarely know they're the monsters.
Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell you.
We're not our brother's keeper, Joseph. In fact, it's an insult to our brother to presume he can't take care of himself.
At that moment, Dave would have lifted a house for Jimmy, held it up to his chest until Jimmy told him where to put it down.
I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car
And two men standing up top, weeping like children because they'd somehow never known the world could get this bad.
Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.
How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" "I don't know. How many?" "Eight." "Why?" "Oh, stop overanalyzing it.
I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn't the least understandable thing you can do.