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Civilization seems to be something we choose when it fits our purpose.
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Dennis Lehane |
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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.
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alcohol
darkness
death
depression
heartache
lonely
loss
mourning
sad
suicidal-ideation
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Dennis Lehane |
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One that society can't forgive, but I can.
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compassion
confess
forgivable
friendship
grace
healing
heartache
kindness
life
love
surrender
truth
unforgiven
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Dennis Lehane |
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Chuck said, "Fuck if I know." Cawley stepped up beside them. "Quite similar to our clinical conclusion."
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Dennis Lehane |
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Maybe I'd move to Tibet, climb a mountain with the Dalai Lama or head to Paris and wear nothing but black, grow myself a keen goatee and talk about jazz all the time. Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.
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Dennis Lehane |
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It's a lot easier to ask a woman's forgiveness than her permission.
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Dennis Lehane |
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13e1431
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If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point.
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Dennis Lehane |
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f9c008e
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We're humans, so we're messy
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Dennis Lehane |
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21840aa
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You think the whole electrical system is fried?" Chuck said, "Good possibility." "That would mean fences." Chuck picked up an apple as it floated onto his foot. He went into a windup and kicked his leg and fired it into the wall. "Stee-rike one!" He turned to Teddy. "That would mean fences, yes." --
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Dennis Lehane |
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3a6f970
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It's like I'm in a beautiful library but none of the books have titles.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Por supuesto. --Echo un trago--. El mundo es violento, Patrick. La gente disfruta matando. Porque... --Les da poder --dijo Oscar. --Exactamente --reconocio Devin--. Tiene que haber algo en ello que te hace sentir la hostia de bien. Todo ese poder... --Se encogio de hombros--. Pero ?para que te explicamos esto si tu ya lo sabes?
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Dennis Lehane |
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An entire tree swept past the door, upside down, its roots sprouting upward like horns. "You see that?" "Yeah. It's gonna wake up in the middle of the ocean, say, 'Wait a second. This isn't right.' "'I'm supposed to be over there.' "'Took me years to get that hill looking the way I wanted it."
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Dennis Lehane |
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Don't forget--Charlie Chaplin too, my friend." "I'd do an imitation, but I don't know what he sounds like." "Hey, not bad, boss. You can open for me in the Catskills."
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Dennis Lehane |
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4b0ad0c
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I do have my dark days. I suppose everyone does. The difference is that most people don't kill their husbands with an axe.
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Dennis Lehane |
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for a moment, distant. "It's what you do," Teddy said softly. "Sure," Chuck said eventually, his face still flushed. The dock appeared as"
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Dennis Lehane |
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There's a bar around the corner. Lemme buy you a drink before the war.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Another long pull of the sawteeth across the pink folds of his brain, and Teddy had to bite down against a scream and he heard Rachel's screams in there too with the fire and he saw her looking into his eyes and felt her breath on his lips and felt her face in his hands as his thumbs caressed her temples and that fucking saw went back and forth through his head-- don'ttakethosefuckingpills
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Dennis Lehane |
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722f5c2
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I open up--" Cawley again: "Using your keys, correct, Mr. Ganton?" Ganton nodded at Cawley, looked back at his knees. "I use my keys, yeah, 'cause the door's locked."
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Dennis Lehane |
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bf4ae8b
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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.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Win for me. Win for my kids. Win for my marriage so I can carry your winning back to the car with me and sit in the glow of it with my family as we drive back toward our otherwise winless lives.
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Dennis Lehane |
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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 reckoning of the self.
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broken-hearted
confess
delusion
denial
happy
heal
healing
honesty
hope
life
love
pathetic
recover
rigourous-honesty
scars
self-hate
tragic
treatment
wound
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It's an island, boss. They'll always find us." Teddy met Chuck's eyes and nodded. For the first time since they'd met, he could see fear in Chuck's eyes, his jaw trying to tighten against it."
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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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Dennis Lehane |
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05fc24a
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You're just pissed off. And when you're pissed off, you lash out.
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annoyed
dennis-lehane
irate
moonlight-mile
pissed-off
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In the shower he felt it coming again--that old wave of sadness, the one that felt ancient and had been with him since he could remember, an awareness that tragedy loomed somewhere in his future, tragedy as heavy as limestone blocks. As if an angel had told him his future while he was still in the womb, and Jimmy had emerged from the womb with the angel's words planted somewhere in his mind, but faded from his lips. Jimmy raised his eyes to..
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Dennis Lehane |
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48adc24
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Everyone wants a quick fix. We're tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old days back, and we don't even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed.
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Dennis Lehane |
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He lay on his side, looking out at the sea. So blue at this time of day, so vibrant as the afternoon died around it. He lay there feeling the breeze on his face and the sea spreading out forever under the darkening sky and he felt so small, so utterly human, but it wasn't a debilitating feeling. It was an oddly proud one. To be a part of this. A speck, yes. But part of it, one with it. Breathing.
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Dennis Lehane |
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SUN WAS in the room when he woke. He sat up and looked toward the bars, but the bars weren't there. Just a window, lower than it should have been until he realized he was up
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Dennis Lehane |
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Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again.
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sad-but-true
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Dennis Lehane |
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Marv stared at his phone. Kids these days. It was like on that day in school when they taught personal responsibility, this entire fucking generation had banged in sick.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.
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children
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It's been a complicated decade for me." She" --
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Dennis Lehane |
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I don't have room in my heart for most people. Got nothing against them, but I got nothing for them, either.
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Dennis Lehane |
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He held up a hand to stop her. "Then one day, about six months ago, it hit me--love doesn't trump all for you, safety does. And I knew sooner or later you'd dump me before I'd dump you because--and this is the important part, Rach--I would never dump you." He gave her a beautiful, broken smile. "And that's been my purpose all along." After"
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Dennis Lehane |
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7caa710
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And that's when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by a single instant of horrifying clarity.
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Dennis Lehane |
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8a10e5c
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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.
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Dennis Lehane |
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34bb443
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A complaint that's not looking for a solution is a disease that's not looking for a cure.
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Dennis Lehane |
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7794538
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It was like sitting through a movie, no matter how boring or confusing, until the end. Because at the end, sometimes things were explained or the ending itself was cool enough that you felt like sitting through all the boring stuff had been worth it.
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Dennis Lehane |
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he'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all egomaniacs were insecure to their frightened cores, they this weilded "power" barbarically so the world would not find them out"
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power
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Dennis Lehane |
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6982e59
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Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.
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Dennis Lehane |
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e67730d
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Another death. The more I see, the less I know.
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Dennis Lehane |
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c83acc3
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In his time on earth, he'd learned one truth above all else when it came to power--those who lost it usually didn't see it vanishing until it was already gone.
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Dennis Lehane |
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e1d5208
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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.
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Dennis Lehane |
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He looked up at the underside of the bridge, everyone battling to either get into the city or out of it, everyone in an irritated rush, probably half aware that they wouldn't feel any better once they got home. Half of them would go right back out again to the market for something they'd forgotten, to a bar, to the video store, to a restaurant where they'd wait in line again. And for what? What did we line up for? Where did we expect to go?..
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life
truth
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