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Civilization seems to be something we choose when it fits our purpose.
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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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mourning
loss
depression
death
darkness
suicidal-ideation
alcohol
heartache
lonely
sad
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Dennis Lehane |
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One that society can't forgive, but I can.
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kindness
compassion
friendship
life
love
truth
forgivable
unforgiven
confess
healing
grace
heartache
surrender
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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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05fc24a
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You're just pissed off. And when you're pissed off, you lash out.
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annoyed
irate
pissed-off
dennis-lehane
moonlight-mile
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Dennis Lehane |
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f35d24d
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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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dba24e1
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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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def9afe
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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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Dennis Lehane |
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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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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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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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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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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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Dennis Lehane |
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561fb4a
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There is no street with mute stones and no house without echoes. --Gongora
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Dennis Lehane |
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Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone,' he sang.
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Dennis Lehane |
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I love my burdens.
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Dennis Lehane |
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You can have two families in this life, Joe, the one you're born to and the one you build.
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Dennis Lehane |
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She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.
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man
mystic-river
smoke
description
voice
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Dennis Lehane |
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8f5b2a4
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The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.
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Dennis Lehane |
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And yet they acquired. They built scaffolds of debt, and just when it seemed the pile would come tumbling down from the weight, they bought a living room set on layaway, tossed it up on top. And as they needed to acquire, they seemed to need to discard in equal or larger measure. There was an almost violent addiction in the piles of trash he saw, the sense it gave him of shitting out food you shouldn't have eaten in the first place.
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Dennis Lehane |
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I'll be waiting at the airport.'
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Dennis Lehane |
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Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve's hand--they'd have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.
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heroes
image
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Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their "Amens" and seen them gather on a porch or two afterward with their lemonade and piety, but he knew if he ever showed up on their steps, starving or injured, the only response he'd get to a plea for human kindness would be the amen of a shotgun pointed in his face."
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hypocrisy
race
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Dennis Lehane |
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9569013
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Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Cruelty is older than the Bible. Savagery beat its chest in the first human summer and has kept beating it every day since. The worst in men is commonplace. The best is a far rarer thing.
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Dennis Lehane |
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dca288e
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There seemed to be little rhyme or reason as to why one day snatching the correct words from the ether was like opening a faucet and other days it was like opening a vein,
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Dennis Lehane |
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Hic kucuk bir tercihin tum hayatini nasil degistirebilecegini dusundun mu?
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Dennis Lehane |
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He understood people a little too well, and the knowledge made him nervous.
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Dennis Lehane |
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e0ccafc
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And she was-definitely-a woman who did not shrink from gauntlets, but stepped up to them, and said, Okay, bring it. Bring your worst. I will get back up. Every time. I will not shrivel and die. So watch out.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can't remember when a block of it didn't rest on top of my heart. I love what, if broken, can't be repaired. What, if lost can't be replaced. I love my burdens.
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Dennis Lehane |
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25bbcca
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Sometimes, when outrage begat outrage with enough frequency, it threatened the fabric of the universe, and the universe pushed back.
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the-fabric-of-the-universe
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Dennis Lehane |
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5c9a971
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People surprise you sometimes.
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people
dennis-lehane
sacred
quotes
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Dennis Lehane |