Quotes from Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

One that society can't forgive, but I can.

But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.