Quotes from Dennis Lehane

I'm just bones in a box, Teddy.

N?u anh không Ä'iên nhÆ°ng ng??i ta b?o vá»›i c? th? giá»›i là anh Ä'iên thì m?i ná»— lá»±c ph?n ??i nh?m ch?ng minh ng??c l?i s? càng giúp c?ng c? quan Ä'i?m c?a h?.

Happiness comes in moments, and then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness'"—Val winked—"'sadness settles in.

Se o senhor algum dia vir um campo de extermínio, doutor, procure-me novamente para falar de sentimentos em relação a Deus.

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.

We're humans, so we're messy

She had that light about her that turned people around her into moths.

The worst of us has good in him. The best of us has pure fucking evil in his heart. We battle. It's all we can do.

You're just pissed off. And when you're pissed off, you lash out.

It was like sitting through a movie, no matter how boring or confusing, until the end. Because at the end, sometimes things were explained or the ending itself was cool enough that you felt like sitting through all the boring stuff had been worth it.

But how come it's always the poor who are expected to eat the food that's good for them no matter how it tastes?

Teddy wished that his mother were still alive so she could teach her grandkids you had to get hard, strong. The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took.

Sometimes, when outrage begat outrage with enough frequency, it threatened the fabric of the universe, and the universe pushed back.

People surprise you sometimes.

Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.

Another death. The more I see, the less I know.

in Southie, most kids came out of the womb clutching a Schlitz and a pack of Luckies.

Brendan looked at the card. He kept his eyes on it when he said, "I loved her so much. I…I ain't ever going to feel that again. I mean, it don't happen twice, right?" He looked up at Whitey and Sean. His eyes were dry, but the pain in them was something Sean wanted to duck from. "It don't happen once, most cases," Whitey said.

Marv stared at his phone. Kids these days. It was like on that day in school when they taught personal responsibility, this entire fucking generation had banged in sick.

How did anyone know where faith developed? One moment, it wasn't there, the next it was.

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.

She couldn't adapt to the present, to who they were now, warts and all, so she drove winding lanes into the past to warm herself.

El tema, escribió él, es el dolor. Cuánto acumulo, cuánto esquivo.

If a man was lucky, he was moving toward something his whole life.