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a024bc0
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There's something ugly about the flawless.
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Dennis Lehane |
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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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Dennis Lehane |
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Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?
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Dennis Lehane |
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He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.
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Dennis Lehane |
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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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Dennis Lehane |
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She blew a stream of smoke up at the empty clotheslines. 'These silly dreams you have when you're young. I mean, what, Katie and Brendan Harris were going ot make a life in Las Vegas? How long would that little Eden have lasted? Maybe they'd be on their second trailer park, second kid, but it would have hit them sooner or later - life isn't happily ever after and golden sunsets and shit like that. It's work. The person you love is rarely wo..
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love
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Dennis Lehane |
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Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.
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Dennis Lehane |
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There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.
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Dennis Lehane |
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The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?
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Dennis Lehane |
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Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because t..
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Dennis Lehane |
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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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victim
weakness
vulnerability
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Dennis Lehane |
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I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.
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character
humor
humor-inspirational
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Dennis Lehane |
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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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Dennis Lehane |
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Lately, though, he'd just been tired in general. Tired of people. Tired of books and TV and the nightly news and songs on the radio he'd heard years before and hadn't liked much in the first place. He was tired of his clothes and tired of his hair and tired of other people's clothes and other people's hair. He was tired of wishing things made sense. He'd gotten to a point where he was pretty sure he'd heard everything anyone had to say on a..
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Dennis Lehane |
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If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person's actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. It's a no-win situation. It's a death penalty really.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.
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Dennis Lehane |
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She smiled darkly and shook her head. 'I'm not crazy. I'm not. Of course what else would a crazy person claim? That's the Kafkaesque genius of it all. If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point. Do you see what I'm saying?
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Dennis Lehane |
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Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.
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Dennis Lehane |
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I loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can't compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It's its own unique gift."
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Dennis Lehane |
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Everyone sees different things.
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Dennis Lehane |
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It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.
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relationships
hope
love
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She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who'd been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.
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Dennis Lehane |
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What molds us is what maims us.
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Dennis Lehane |
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and she was so simply his love, his girl, watching him approach as if she were memorizing him and his walk and those flowers and this moment, and he wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could...
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Dennis Lehane |
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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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Dennis Lehane |
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When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.
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Dennis Lehane |
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The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took
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life
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Dennis Lehane |
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I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the r..
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religion
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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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Dennis Lehane |
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Got us a full moon too coming tomorrow night. Just make things a whole lot worse. All we need. - Why is that? - What's that, Marshal? - The full moon. You think it makes people crazy? - I know it does.- Found a wrinkle in one of the pages and used his index finger to smooth it out. - How come? - Well, you think about it--the moon affects the tide, right? - Sure. - Has some sort of magnet effect or something on water. - I'll buy that. - Huma..
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sanity
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Dennis Lehane |
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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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Dennis Lehane |
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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.
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grief
loss
sadness
love
lonesome
missing-her
mournography
no-going-back
love-lost
heartache
missing-someone
miss
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We were supposed to grow old together, Dolores. Have kids. Take walks under old trees. I wanted to watch the lines etch themselves into your flesh and know when each and every one of them appeared. Die together.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.
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Dennis Lehane |
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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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Dennis Lehane |
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What you put out into the world will always come back for you.
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Dennis Lehane |
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The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.
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Dennis Lehane |
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someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience.
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shutter-island
human-experience
medication
prescription-drugs
psychiatry
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Believe it or not, Marshal, I believe in talk therapy, basic interpersonal skills. I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect and listen to what he's trying to tell you, you just might reach him. (87)
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Dennis Lehane |
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But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.
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Dennis Lehane |
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She died in a fire. I miss her like you... If I was underwater, I wouldn't miss oxygen that much.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?...Gods don't think they can become men.
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