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

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. — Dennis Lehane

Conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. — Dennis Lehane

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

Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know. — Dennis Lehane

scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for. — Dennis Lehane

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. — Dennis Lehane

The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took — Dennis Lehane

How naive can you be before it becomes unforgivable? — Dennis Lehane

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. — Dennis Lehane

This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything. — Dennis Lehane

Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart. — Dennis Lehane

What you put out into the world will always come back for you. — Dennis Lehane

We're humans, so we're messy — Dennis Lehane

Someday ... , we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience. — Dennis Lehane

I'm driving a stolen car On a pitch black night And I'm telling myself I'm gonna be alright. — Dennis Lehane

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. — Dennis Lehane

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion. — Dennis Lehane

I don't have room in my heart for most people. Got nothing against them, but I got nothing for them, either. — Dennis Lehane

I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum — Dennis Lehane

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?" "No, sir." "Gods don't think they can become men. — Dennis Lehane

We met when we were both majoring in Space Invaders with a Pub Etiquette minor at the Happy Harbor Campus of UMass/Boston. — Dennis Lehane

She had the air of someone clinging to a wall of soap. — Dennis Lehane

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. — Dennis Lehane

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. — Dennis Lehane

But I say their rules are bullshit. I say there are no rules but the ones a man makes for himself. — Dennis Lehane

Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core. — Dennis Lehane

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

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

It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a point it couldn't change back. One second. — Dennis Lehane

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference. — Dennis Lehane

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead. — Dennis Lehane

Civilization seems to be something we choose when it fits our purpose. — Dennis Lehane

Everyone sees different things. — Dennis Lehane

You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves. — Dennis Lehane

The lines in her face were deep enough to hide gravel in. — Dennis Lehane

It was one of those sneaky days in late winter where spring came along to get a lay of the land. — Dennis Lehane

Only a child thinks life is about her wants. — Dennis Lehane

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. — Dennis Lehane

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

I love my burdens. — Dennis Lehane

Goddamn embarrassing what a civilian you've become, man. — Dennis Lehane

It's a lot easier to ask a woman's forgiveness than her permission. — Dennis Lehane

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous. — Dennis Lehane

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 — Dennis Lehane

Soft waves broke against the rocks. — Dennis Lehane

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. — Dennis Lehane

This is America ... where every adult shall have the full and inalienable right to eat her young — Dennis Lehane

As they've always been. And they don't change just because you want them to. — Dennis Lehane

You don't have a partner, Marshal, You came here alone. — Dennis Lehane

You can have two families in this life, Joe, the one you're born to and the one you build. — Dennis Lehane

Nobody learned nothing. Nobody evolved. — Dennis Lehane

We don't know how she got out of her room
It's as if she evaporated, straight through the walls. — Dennis Lehane

Hell, everyone's nice until some kind of hard choice is put in front of them.
Coronado: Stories — Dennis Lehane

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

So, about the only difference I see between a thief and a banker most times is a college degree. — Dennis Lehane

We all die alone ... I could have helped her with the dying. — Dennis Lehane

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

Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell you. — Dennis Lehane

Monsters don't dress like monsters; they dress like humans. Even stranger, they rarely know they're the monsters. — Dennis Lehane

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it. — Dennis Lehane

Sometimes, when outrage begat outrage with enough frequency, it threatened the fabric of the universe, and the universe pushed back. — Dennis Lehane

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

The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities. — Dennis Lehane

She died in a fire. I miss her like you ... If I was underwater, I wouldn't miss oxygen that much. — Dennis Lehane

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. — Dennis Lehane

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. — Dennis Lehane

He had a punch like a bag full of cue balls. — Dennis Lehane

We all have our crosses to bear. — Dennis Lehane

If a man was lucky, he was moving toward something his whole life. — Dennis Lehane

You're just pissed off. And when you're pissed off, you lash out. — Dennis Lehane

There's darkness in this world you can't learn about by watching TV and reading books. — Dennis Lehane

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

People just want you to see them as they hope to be seen. And everyone wants to be seen as interesting. — Dennis Lehane

Me, either. What — Dennis Lehane

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

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job. — Dennis Lehane

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

This woman was hard-core. Fuck with her at your peril. — Dennis Lehane

Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man? — Dennis Lehane

People don't fix each other, Joseph. And they never become anything but what they've always been. — Dennis Lehane

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. — Dennis Lehane

It's been a complicated decade for me." She — Dennis Lehane

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. — Dennis Lehane

moaned his final breath into the imitation Oriental. — Dennis Lehane

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected. — Dennis Lehane

Another death. The more I see, the less I know. — Dennis Lehane

You should write because some stray scrap of your soul is trying to manifest itself verbally. — Dennis Lehane

I'll be waiting at the airport.'
'You just made my year' she said.
'You made my life. — Dennis Lehane

Love like that? Hell, it seems so pure, it's damn near criminal. — Dennis Lehane

You was in all sorts of places, huh?" "Yeah, I was. Saw the world." "What'd you think of it?" "Different languages, same shit. — Dennis Lehane

And two men standing up top, weeping like children because they'd somehow never known the world could get this bad. — Dennis Lehane

There's something ugly about the flawless. — Dennis Lehane

She was forced to face how cold and unlike her fantasy her own marriage was? Or did she suddenly just get tired of living this long-ass life? Joella — Dennis Lehane

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. — Dennis Lehane

Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock. — Dennis Lehane

Plans are just dreams until they're executed. — Dennis Lehane

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

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

How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" "I don't know. How many?" "Eight." "Why?" "Oh, stop overanalyzing it. — Dennis Lehane