“If a man was lucky, he was moving toward something his whole life.” — dennis lehane Copy Share Image
“She blew a stream of smoke up at the empty clotheslines. 'These silly dreams you have when you're young. I mean, what,… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“He looked back at the page, got one last glimpse before the match blew itself out. Going to find you today, Andrew.… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“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… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“We all know who you are, Mr. Coughlin. Famous Yankee gangster. Friend of the colonel. It would be safer for a man… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“You ever think how the most minor decision can change the entire direction of your life? Like, say you miss your bus… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“This was the photograph, I knew, that had already burned its way into my dreams and my shadows, into that part of… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“I'll be waiting at the airport.' 'You just made my year' she said. 'You made my life.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“He'd told his son recently that life was luck. But life, he'd come to realize as he aged, was also memory. The… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Bob, who had never been late in his life, suspected there was something hostile at the core of people who always were.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Lately, though, he'd just been tired in general. Tired of people. Tired of books and TV and the nightly news and songs… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“He knew her. He knew her, this man she’d married, this man she’d committed herself to walking through this life with. He… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“I know you. I've known you my whole life. I've been waiting. Waiting for you to make an appearance. Waiting all these… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“I just notice people sometimes mistake their life choices for their moral ones.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Everyone I know lies, breaks their word, and has perfectly legitimate excuses for why they do. Except you. Haven't you ever noticed that? Two… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“If a man was lucky, he was moving toward something his whole life.” — dennis lehane Copy Share Image
“After my daughter was born, I'd considered buying a shotgun to ward off potention suitors fourteen or so years up the road. Now, as… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“I once again felt an odd flush of admiration for my partner's faith in a religion I had long ago abandoned. She doesn't advertise… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“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… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Jimmy looked back over at his wife, and Celeste could feel the tenderest of aches in the look. She could feel another teardrop piece… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your ear canals… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“The only people who ask questions like ‘Did he want to be something besides a bartender?’ are people who can become whatever they want.… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
