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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e67730d | Another death. The more I see, the less I know. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| c83acc3 | 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. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e1d5208 | 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 | ||
| 0ff5a78 | 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?.. | life truth | Dennis Lehane | |
| 561fb4a | There is no street with mute stones and no house without echoes. --Gongora | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 3021cb9 | Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone,' he sang. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 56d059a | I love my burdens. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 66cba7e | You can have two families in this life, Joe, the one you're born to and the one you build. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 825b5b4 | She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke. | description man mystic-river smoke voice | Dennis Lehane | |
| 8f5b2a4 | 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. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 0cb10db | 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. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 0ee3228 | I'll be waiting at the airport.' | Dennis Lehane | ||
| cff8628 | 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. | heroes image | Dennis Lehane | |
| e320631 | 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." | hypocrisy race | Dennis Lehane | |
| 9569013 | Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 6638918 | 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. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| dca288e | 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, | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 6618f20 | Hic kucuk bir tercihin tum hayatini nasil degistirebilecegini dusundun mu? | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 00acd97 | He understood people a little too well, and the knowledge made him nervous. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e0ccafc | 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. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 51ae5ef | 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. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 25bbcca | Sometimes, when outrage begat outrage with enough frequency, it threatened the fabric of the universe, and the universe pushed back. | the-fabric-of-the-universe | Dennis Lehane | |
| 5c9a971 | People surprise you sometimes. | dennis-lehane people quotes sacred | Dennis Lehane | |
| 10834ed | If a man was lucky, he was moving toward something his whole life. | dennis lehane | ||
| 1ec1dfc | Another thing Tim was fond of saying was when a house falls down, the first termite to bite into it is just as much to blame as the last. Joe didn't get that one--the first termite would be long fucking dead by the time the last termite got his teeth into the wood. Wouldn't he? Every time Tim made the analogy, Joe resolved to look into termite life expectancy, but then he'd forget to do it until the next time Tim brought it up, usually when.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 1e98084 | The smell of fresh air made Kate's eyes sting. She looked up. The pole lights were on. The sun was sinking like a stone. Maggie asked, "Where's your car parked?" | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 74d7c31 | This women's lib stuff works for rich girls, but all you've got going for you is your face and your figure. You need to take advantage of both before you lose them. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 642ae6a | She had seen this before. She knew that you could put it all in a little box and close it up later, that you could go on with your life if you didn't sleep too much, didn't breathe too much, didn't live too much so that death came back and snatched you away for the taking. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| e06e9b7 | people found off-putting. You could not beat her at chess or Trivial Pursuit or even Monopoly. She knew all the questions on Jeopardy. She knew when to use who or whom. She could not abide misinformation. She disdained organized religion. In social situations, she had the strange habit of spouting obscure facts. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| d2aebbc | he recognized Donald Trump's picture on the jacket and assumed it was a get-rich-quick scheme. Obviously, Jake Berman hadn't taken the man's advice. Though, considering Berman had lost his job and declared bankruptcy, maybe he had. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 89df715 | It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| f56d004 | No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| c7964f5 | To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y'all helped grow up to be writers | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 2e92dd3 | Napivat'sia - eto dlia slabykh, eto vykhod dlia liudei, kotorym ne khvataet sil spravit'sia s sobstvennoi zhizn'iu, krepko stoiat' na nogakh. P'ianstvo - eto pobeg. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 4155bf3 | He shrugged. "Are you going to answer me?" "You told me to shut up." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 2ebc142 | Rick shuffled through the cards again. "Where is the tallest mountain on earth?" Lydia put her hand over her eyes so she could concentrate. "You said tallest, not highest elevation, so it can't be Everest." She made some thinking noises that caused the dogs to stir. The cat started making biscuits on her stomach. She could hear the clock ticking in the kitchen. Finally, Rick said, "Think ukulele." She peeked through her fingers. "Hawaii?" ".. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 0680920 | This sheriff goes into a saloon and says, "I'm lookin' for a cowboy wearing a brown paper vest and brown paper pants.' He waited a beat, making sure Sara was listening. 'The bartender says, "What's he wanted for?" And the sheriff says, "Rustling." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| db23f08 | Then again, Paul had once told her that there was no such thing as coincidence. "The Law of Truly Large Numbers provides that given a large enough sample size, any outrageous thing can happen." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 64844c8 | Reductio ad Hitlerum." Claire couldn't stop quoting Paul. "It's when you compare someone to Hitler to win an argument." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| c205738 | He had given weight to her life, tied her down to the world when her natural inclination had always been to float above everything, as if it were happening to someone else. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 6c31f2c | Inside, he had forgotten what it was like to hear a woman's voice, listen to the sort of complaints that only women could have. Bad haircuts. Rude store clerks. Chipped nails. Men wanted to talk about things: cars, guns, snatch. They didn't discuss their feelings unless it was anger, and even that didn't last for long because generally they started doing something about it. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| df77c06 | Why is it that we always neglect the things that matter most? This is a universal question, because through the days and weeks and months and years after your disappearance, I understood that I did not cherish you enough. I never told you that I loved you enough. I never held you enough. I never listened to you enough. You | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 58bfcb1 | I would've given up without her - not on you, never on you, but on myself. I suppose I can tell you this now, but I wasn't a very good student. I wasn't smart enough to just get by. I wasn't focused enough in class. I rarely passed exams. I skipped assignments. I was constantly on academic probation. Not that your grandmother would ever know, but at the time, I was thinking of doing what you were later accused of doing: selling all my belon.. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| d6dbd2e | It was odd how you could love something so much, but forget about it when it wasn't right under your nose. | Karin Slaughter |