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Hier gibt's keine Typen mit Schlafstorungen oder welche, die Angst vor Lochern im Burgersteig haben. Soweit ich das aus den Akten ersehen konnte, sind die Leute hier, nun ja, richtig plemplem.
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As they've always been. And they don't change just because you want them to.
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racial-discrimination
power
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Dennis Lehane |
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Brian joking that if there was one place in the city where the locals didn't need help learning how to shoot--or dodge--bullets, it was Dorchester.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Se rio entre dientes. --Eso es lo que tu crees. --Nego con la cabeza de nuevo mientras se le dibujaba en los labios una extrana sonrisa--. Si tuvieras una hija, Patrick, digamos que de veinte anos, lista, que estudia en Harvard, en Bryce o en la Universidad de Boston, y te enteraras de que se esta follando a un profesor, ?como te sentirias? Acudi al encuentro de su mirada hueca. --No digo que me hiciera muy feliz, Eric, pero no me sorprende..
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Dennis Lehane |
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El doctor Barnett dejo caer el estetoscopio, se guardo la linternita en el bolsillo y le dijo a Angie: --Se quedara en la UCI hasta manana para que podamos controlarla, pero yo diria que la cosa va bien. --Me hace un dano terrible --dijo ella. El medico sonrio. --Era de prever. Esa bala tuvo un recorrido bastante desagradable, senorita Gennaro. Ya hablaremos mas adelante de los danos causados. Le puedo asegurar que hay un monton de alimento..
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the other side of his desk. "Yeah, well, like I always say, miss, you could" --
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Dennis Lehane |
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Yeah, well, it's not like the old days." I bit into my lobster roll. Maybe the best lobster roll in Boston, which made it, arguably, the best lobster roll in the world. "It's"
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Dennis Lehane |
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La calida mano de Angie se cerraba en torno a la mia mientras dabamos media vuelta y, esquivando los escombros, seguiamos el camino de la brisa en direccion a nuestra parte de la ciudad.
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Dennis Lehane |
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How naive can you be before it becomes unforgivable?
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Dennis Lehane |
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Not that Danny seemed intent on fucking it up, just that he was a man after all, and no one knew better than Luther himself how completely a man could step on his own dick when what he thought he wanted contradicted what he knew he needed. The
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The driver got out. He looked like a cop--blond crew cut, red face, white shirt, black-and-gold nylon tie, the heft of his gut dropping over his belt buckle like a stack of pancakes. The other one looked sick. He was skinny and tired-looking and stayed in his seat, one hand gripping his skull through greasy black hair, staring into the side-view mirror as the three boys came around near the driver's door. The beefy one crooked a finger at t..
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Dennis Lehane |
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Le mire. --?Habias visto algo tan cruel? Solto una risita. --He visto cosas mucho peores, Kenzie. Me volvi hacia Devin. --?Y tu? --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..
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Dennis Lehane |
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Puedes tener algo a la vista durante toda tu vida, esperando que reconozcas su presencia, pero a menudo estas demasiado cerca para verlo.
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Dennis Lehane |
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People just want you to see them as they hope to be seen. And everyone wants to be seen as interesting.
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Dennis Lehane |
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You ever hear of Little Christmas?" he asked her. "'Course," she said. "January sixth." "Nobody remembers it anymore." "Meant something in my time," she said. "My old man's too." Her voice picked up a tone of distracted pity. "Not yours, though." "Not mine," Bob agreed and felt a trapped"
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It's impossible to park on Tremont or even idle there for more than thirty seconds. A platoon of meter maids, imported from the female Hitler Youth shortly after the fall of Berlin, roam the street, at least two to a block, pit bull faces on top of fire hydrant bodies, just waiting for someone stupid enough to stall traffic on their street.
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It had happened before she was born, this wholesale discarding of American industry, this switch from a culture that made things of value to a culture that consumed things of dubious merit. She'd grown up in the absence, in other people's memory of a dream so fragile it had probably been doomed from the moment of conception. If there had ever been a social contract between the country and its citizens, it was long gone now, save the Hobbesi..
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I'm getting dissed way too much lately." "Probably because you date defense attorneys who think a good wardrobe makes up for that lack-of-brains thing." "I turned on my chair. "Oh, you know her?" "No, I've heard half the mean in the twelfth ward to, though" "Hiss," I said. "Meow." She gave me a rueful smile as she lit another cigarette. "Cat's got to have claws to make it a fight. What I hear, all she's got is a nice briefcase, great hair, ..
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squee
otp
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Dennis Lehane |
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Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?" "No, sir." "Gods don't think they can become men."
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Dennis Lehane |
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That when a woman moves on, she doesn't look back, and I'm that woman.
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Dennis Lehane |
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But what? No one's good, no one's bad. Everyone's just trying to make their way.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Charming as he was, you never felt fully comfortable with the guy, because he never seemed fully comfortable with himself.
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Dennis Lehane |
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After I left Brandon, I met Dominique at the Neptune Oyster in the North End.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Bob, who had never been late in his life, suspected there was something hostile at the core of people who always were.
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That if you believe, really believe, and if your strategy is sound, and if you're willing to leave everything you've got on the field of battle to win the day"--he held his arms wide--"you can do anything." She'd"
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For a moment-maybe even a succession of moments and none sharp enough to point to as the cause-he'd been happy.
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Dennis Lehane |
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What they didn't tell you about absolute power was that it was never absolute; the instant you had it, someone had already lined up to try to take it away. Princes could sleep soundly, but never kings. The ear was always tuned for the creak on the
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Dennis Lehane |
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I'm alone," Angie had told me a month ago. "No, you're not." "You're not alone," I said, my arms wrapped around her from behind. "Yes, I am. And all your holding and all your love can't change that right now."
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Dennis Lehane |
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People were lost and people were scared and their lynch ropes couldn't reach bankers or stockbrokers, so they looked for targets closer to home.
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social-fabric
inequality
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We all know who you are, Mr. Coughlin. Famous Yankee gangster. Friend of the colonel. It would be safer for a man to swim into the middle of the ocean and cut his own throat than to threaten you.' He solemnly made the sign of the cross. 'But when people starve and have nowhere to go, where would you have them end up?' 'Not on my land,' Joe said. 'But it is not your land. It's God's. You are renting it. This rum? This life?' He patted his c..
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life
land-ownership
land
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Dennis Lehane |
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Do you know what it's like to fight with someone every day? Someone who claims to dislike conflict but who in fact lives for it?
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Dennis Lehane |
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Only a child thinks life is about her wants.
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Dennis Lehane |
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moaned his final breath into the imitation Oriental.
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Dennis Lehane |
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If it's ever within your power to do so, she considered saying aloud to Brian (but didn't), you have to bear witness to your dead. You simply have to. You have to step into the energy field of whatever remains of their spirit, their soul, their essence and let it pass through your body. And in the passing, maybe a wisp of it adheres to you, grafts itself to your cells. And in this communion, the dead continue to live. Or strive to. Instead,
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Dennis Lehane |
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No, a guy had one on the T when I was coming over here. I work in Cambridge.
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Dennis Lehane |
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Goddamn embarrassing what a civilian you've become, man.
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moonlight-mile
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Dennis Lehane |
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The only people who ask questions like 'Did he want to be something besides a bartender?' are people who can become whatever they want. The rest of us are just Americans." The"
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Dennis Lehane |
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All his ghosts, though, were gone. Except the boy. The boy cocked his head at Joe, as if surprised he was coming closer. Joe said, "You're me?" The boy seemed confused by the question. Because he wasn't the boy anymore. He was Vivian Ignatius Brennan. Saint Viv. The Gatekeeper. The Undertaker. "There were just too many mistakes," Saint Viv said kindly. "Too late to go back and fix them all. Too late." Joe didn't even see the gun in his hand..
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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." "So"
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That's how the Sukulowskis got out?" Captain Byner asked. "Yup." Joe lit a cigarette. "Where'd they end up?" Joe tossed his match in the ashtray. "You don't really want to know." Rico said, "Gentlemen, I agree with you. Freddy was a fucking asshole going after Montooth in the first place." Freddy, already aggrieved, looked even more dismayed. "You were." Rico looked Freddy in the eye and formed a circle with the thumb and index of his right..
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Nobody learned nothing. Nobody evolved.
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Dennis Lehane |
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near-deserted parking lot, both buildings looking freshly painted and hopeful for a marina in which there were no yachts. The biggest boat moored at the dock looked to be a forty-footer. Most of the others looked to be lobster boats, aged and constructed of wood. A few of the newer ones were fiberglass. The nicest of those was about thirty-five feet long, the hull painted blue, the wheelhouse painted white, the deck a honey teak. She paid a..
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Dennis Lehane |
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Some mills rose up behind those buildings, their windows broken or nonexistent, the brick edifices festooned with graffiti, the land reclaiming the lower floors and punching cracks through the foundations. It had happened before she was born, this wholesale discarding of American industry, this switch from a culture that made things of value to a culture that consumed things of dubious merit. She'd grown up in the absence, in other people's..
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Dennis Lehane |
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Jimmy looked back over at his wife, and Celeste could feel the tenderest of aches in the look. She could feel another teardrop piece of Jimmy's heart detach and free-fall down the inside of his chest.
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