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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c58dcfe | We age as the rest of the world watches, she thought, but somehow we're the last to know. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| d12dc24 | Sean turned from the rearview, watched the lights on the other side of the highway for a bit. They came in their direction like bullet eyes, streaked past them like hazy ribbons, blurring into one another. He felt the city girded all around them, with its high-rises and tenements and office towers and parking garages, arenas and nightclubs and churches, and he knew that if one of those lights went out, it wouldn't make any difference. And i.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 8e1eede | To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance. | Anthony de Mello | ||
| fab750b | 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 | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 8d196dc | We are not special. We are lit from within by a single candle flame, and when that flame is blown out and all light leaves our eyes, it is the same as if we never existed at all. We don't own our life, we rent it. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| ee5ddbd | Then how did he manage to deceive you? Because I let him. And why would you do that? Because I wanted to feel safe. Safety is an illusion we sell to children to help them sleep. Then I wanted to be a child. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 334ad39 | But in those final seconds, a catalogue of emotion found his eyes. There was dismay. Self-pity. Terror. An abandonment so total it took thirty years off his life and turned him into a ten-year-old before her eyes. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| c91794f | She would rather have known the lie that was Brian than the truth of anything else in her life. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 2a24db1 | A man is the stories he tells about himself, and most of those stories are lies. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| a980c06 | I am still afraid. But I am not terrified. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 2b01a5c | It's been a complicated decade for me. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 9c66b5b | He's happy. And isn't that the worst of all possible outcomes? | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 7ca5c8c | We live in a world of disposable memory. Nothing's built to last, not even shame. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| c7f1b94 | Why?" Rachel said (the eternal why, as she'd come to think of it). "Was he that bad?" "I never heard he was bad," Ann Marie said with a minor slur and a sad grimace. She looked out through the screen at the stone-colored mist in the gray hills and spoke with a firm finality. "Honey, I only heard that he'd moved on." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 64a9edc | He gave her a long, worried look, but cars were stacking up behind them and dusk was gathering. A horn blared. Then another. He handed her a business card--Kenny's Cabinets--and told her to call him anytime. She thanked him and got out of the minivan. As he drove away, she realized the van wasn't even red. It was bronze. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| b7a33c4 | She couldn't tell if the sadness in his smile stemmed from pity for her or if he just possessed a sad smile. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 461cfa2 | They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running. | perseverance | Dennis Lehane | |
| 56a1112 | I want the capital-G God the televangelists claim moves tornadoes out of their paths. The one who cures cancer and arthritis in the faithful, the God professional athletes thank for taking an interest in the outcome of the Super Bowl or World Cup or home run in the 87th of 162 games played by the Red Sox this year. | athiesm god natural-disasters | Dennis Lehane | |
| 3bc1488 | For every solution, a problem. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 3c1430e | You felt it in your soul, no place else. You felt the truth there sometimes--beyond logic--and you were usually right if it was a type of truth that was the exact kind you didn't want to face, weren't sure you could. That's what you tried to ignore, why you went to psychiatrists and spent too long in bars and numbed your brain in front of TV tubes--to hide from hard, ugly truths your soul recognized long before your mind caught up. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 9a29f31 | Over his mother's shoulder, Jimmy saw his father stumble out of the house, his clothes wrinkled and his face puffy with sleep or booze or both...His mother followed Jimmy's gaze and when she looked back at him, she was worn out again, the smile gone so completely from her face, you'd have been surprised she knew how to make one. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| b7565ae | A man is the stories he tells about himself and most of those stories are lies. And never look too closely if you uncover his lies, it will humiliate you both. Its best to just live with the bullshit." Then her mother kissed her head, patted her cheek, told her she was safe." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 3100e51 | I got divorced today," she said. "I lost my job--no, correct that, my career--six months ago, as you well know, because I had a panic attack on the air. I've grown terrified of people, not particular people, but in general, which is worse. I've spent the last few months a virtual shut-in. And honestly? I can't wait to get back to it. Brian, there's nothing I like about myself." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 75df88d | After all this suffering, the faces seemed to ask, are we to accept that suffering is the point? | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 0adcfba | It was hideous. Because if someone can be that happy? That perfect? What's that say about the rest of us? | Dennis Lehane | ||
| b742e90 | I'm just bones in a box, Teddy. | death death-of-a-loved-one | Dennis Lehane | |
| 5cb2616 | Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught. | Anthony de Mello | ||
| bab6457 | One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation. | Anthony de Mello | ||
| 9d74ca8 | I found Albatross Airlines down at the far end of the terminal. A woman in a brown uniform stood behind the counter. She was about fifty, with a leathery face that looked like my cab driver's twin. I wondered if she was the girlfriend of my new friend on the dock. For his sake, I hoped not. | Jeff Lindsay | ||
| 8cf9e7f | parcel, | Jeff Brown | ||
| 6322536 | Real love is no easy path: Readiness is everything. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 0213f6b | Something changed in the world. Not too long ago, it changed, and we know it. We don't know how to explain it yet, but I think we all can feel it, somewhere deep in our gut or in our brain circuits. We feel time differently. No one has quite been able to capture what is happening or say why. Perhaps it's just that we sense an absence of future, because the present has become too overwhelming, so the future has become unimaginable. And witho.. | modernity the-world time | Valeria Luiselli | |
| 243386d | Look for competence not claims. | Anthony de Mello | ||
| 4c73a7b | Charlie watched her husband's boss grip the sides of the podium like he was about to sodomize it. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 77157d9 | expected him to look like a cross between Colonel Sanders and Foghorn Leghorn. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 6b65ca8 | conversations, and not | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 4a28737 | who didn't know how to use a shotgun? | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 0c10e5b | Okay. Good.' He fumbled for his keys and held them out to her, but she did not take | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 108bdac | You gotta go through a special kind of hell or a special | Karin Slaughter | ||
| f7096bf | Rippy's. Get in the car. Drive to the motel. Wait for me. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| a5aacad | Claire laughed because it was easier than telling him to brush his hair out of his eyes and go back to college. She checked the time on her phone again. Paul was now twelve minutes late. She started catastrophizing: carjacking, hit by a bus, struck by a falling piece of airplane fuselage, abducted by a madman. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 66a0f63 | Paul looked at the man for the first time since he'd walked through the door. "Should I go punch him in the nose?" "Yes." "Will you take me to the hospital when he punches me back?" "Yes." Paul smiled, but only because she was smiling, too. "So, how does it feel to be untethered?" | Karin Slaughter | ||
| c677c8b | Not if you add in the earrings." They shouldn't joke about this, but the alternative was to take it very seriously. She said, "It's weird. I know the monitor's not there anymore, but I can still feel it." "Signal detection theory." He straightened the straw again. "Your perceptual systems are biased toward the monitor touching your skin. More often, people experience the sensation with their phones. They feel it vibrating even when it's not.. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| d976e88 | All you could do was wait for death to make you inconsequential. Frank | Karin Slaughter |