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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fa155d7 | Goddamn embarrassing what a civilian you've become, man. | moonlight-mile | Dennis Lehane | |
| c37ac5f | 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" | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 707fa78 | 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.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e3150b7 | 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" | Dennis Lehane | ||
| a21b535 | 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.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 90023f6 | Nobody learned nothing. Nobody evolved. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| b09be6c | 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.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e18c84b | 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.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 056d2c7 | 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. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 0959f0f | Al'bert, ia by tebia ubil, esli by khot' nemnogo umel ubivat'. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 994f210 | on bez lishnikh rassuzhdenii ponial, chto smerten, nichtozhen i pervyi shag k vykhodu iz etogo mira on sdelal togda, kogda v nego voshel. | dennis lehane | ||
| ba194b5 | Posle smerti ty ne popadaesh' v luchshii mir: luchshii mir -- etot, potomu chto ty eshche ne umer. Nebesa ne v oblakakh. Oni -- vozdukh u tebia v legkikh. | dennis lehane | ||
| a8ab1ee | conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 6d0d09a | Nash dom -- noch', i my pliashem tak besheno, chto pod nogami ne uspevaet vyrasti trava. | dennis lehane | ||
| 60c88bf | He was broad-shouldered, dark-haired and dark-eyed; more than once, women had been noted openly regarding him, and not just immigrant women or those who smoked in public. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 16efd56 | It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a point it couldn't change back. One second. | fate | Dennis Lehane | |
| 1787c69 | I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made the playoffs, or you saw a movie, or a billboard glowing dusky orange and advertising Aruba, or a girl who bore more than a passing resemblance to a woman you'd dated in high school-- a woman you'd loved and lost-- danced above you with shimmering eyes, and you said, fuck it, let's dream just one more time. | hope misery pain | Dennis Lehane | |
| d3426c8 | He was just getting started. He was ready to bust wide open. He could feel it. Big things. Big things were coming. From him. From everywhere. That was the feeling he got lately, as if the whole world had been held in a stable, him included. But soon, soon it was going to bust out all over the place. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 717ba2e | Being alone, you see, is the worst of hell's punishments. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 45d1aa3 | need to confess anything to anyone. You go." "And why would I go?" | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 7a13102 | I just notice people sometimes mistake their life choices for their moral ones. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 279e800 | Had eyes Luther'd seen before in the white poor--spent his whole life eating rage in place of food. Developed a taste for it he wouldn't lose no matter how regular he ate for the rest of his life. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| f29322d | That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. Suddenly everything looks suspect and any brightness you may have noticed the day before has dissipated into the shadows. And the shadows are everywhere. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 03136ac | You see the worst in the best of people," she said, shaking her head, "and the best in the worst of people." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| ca72c82 | Hospitals strip a lot from you--your independence, your confidence, sometimes your will to live. But pettiness too. Pettiness is the first casualty of the ICU waiting room. No one has the energy for it. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 95f2b0c | Soft waves broke against the rocks. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| c27d855 | When she found his eyes, hers were fuller and sharper, lit with something that had entered the world centuries before civilized things. "I get off at midnight," she said." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 6717d6e | Latvian emigres." "How" | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 73817ef | she was forced to face how cold and unlike her fantasy her own marriage was? Or did she suddenly just get tired of living this long-ass life?" Joella" | Dennis Lehane | ||
| ca73aec | Me, either. What | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 3f29e9b | Ella dijo: -El...Le has disparado, joder. Acabas de... O sea, ?te das cuenta? Bob paso la fregona por la mancha. -Le dio una paliza a mi perro. | dogs perro the-drop | Dennis Lehane | |
| 01deef9 | That little girl, I adore her, but she's an anarchist. She wakes us up whenever she feels like it, she thinks high-energy at seven in the morning is a positive, sometimes she screams for no reason, she decides on a second-to-second basis which foods she'll eat and which she'll fight you over, she puts her hands and face into truly disgusting places, and she's attached to our hips for at least another fourteen years, if we're lucky enough fo.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e29ccae | You, you buy into all this stuff about good guys and bad guys in the world. A loan shark breaks a guy's leg for not paying his debt, a banker throws a guy out of his home for the same reason, and you think there's a difference, like the banker's just doing his job but the loan shark's a criminal. I like the loan shark better because he doesn't pretend to be anything else, and I think the banker should be where I am sitting right now. I'm no.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| c88e495 | He'd never wanted kids. Outside of priority boarding on an airline, he couldn't see the upside to them. They took over your life and filled you with terror and weariness and people acted like having one was a blessed event and talked about them in the reverent tones they once reserved for gods. When it came down to it, though, you had to remember that all those assholes cutting you off in traffic and walking the streets and shouting in bars.. | kids | Dennis Lehane | |
| eb71a38 | Love, impossible, yet there was no mistaking it | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 4ea59ad | She had straight brown hair that fell to her shoulders, a rock the size of a Prius on her left ring finger, and she might have been pretty if the skin weren't stretched so tight against her face it gave her the unfortunate look of someone who'd been struck by lightning during an orgasm. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 1135b52 | Permitidme que os invite a un trago antes de la guerra. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| f5d2600 | Lo hice. Me quede de rodillas mientras los polis se me acercaban con cautela, el aire amargo la tomaba con mis pies descalzos y mi fina camisa y los medicos subian a Angie a la ambulancia y se la llevaban. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| ef08047 | What's it about?" Danny seemed authentically curious. "The night. It's got its own set of rules." "Day's got rules too." "Oh, I know," Joe said, "but I don't like them." They stared through the mesh at each other for a long time. "I don't understand," Danny said softly. "I know you don't," Joe said. "You, you buy into all this stuff about good guys and bad guys in the world. A loan shark breaks a guy's leg for not paying his debt, a banker .. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 1fe8686 | Habias visto algo tan cruel? Solto una risita. --He visto cosas | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e5e5428 | En mis primeros recuerdos aparece el fuego. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| c9c4fc3 | Unaware, then, how short futures could be. How quick they could disappear, leave you with nothing but a long-ass present that held no surprises, no reason for hope, nothing but days that bled into one another with so little impact that another year was over and the calendar page in the kitchen was still stuck on March. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 38236e8 | Le di un beso y ella me lo devolvio. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 6dcd4ce | A | Dennis Lehane |