269 Quotes by Dennis Lehane

Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can’t remember when a block of it didn’t rest on top of my heart. I love what, if broken, can’t be repaired. What, if lost can’t be replaced.I love my burdens.

Goddamn embarrassing what a civilian you've become, man.

Invecchiamo sotto gli occhi di tutti, pensò, ma siamo sempre gli ultimi a saperlo.da "Ogni nostra caduta", 2017

You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

We don't know how she got out of her room -- It's as if she evaporated, straight through the walls.

Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love.

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'

Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it’s indelibly her own.

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.