269 Quotes by Dennis Lehane

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

... scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for.

How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade...

The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.