269 Quotes by Dennis Lehane

The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took

The sound of her breathing reminded me, as it so often did, of how vulnerable she was. And how vulnerable we were because of how much we loved her. The fear - that something could happen to her at any moment, something I'd be helpless to stop - had become so omnipresent in my life that I sometimes pictured it growing, like a third arm, out of the center of my chest.

And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.

Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.

Chuck said, "Fuck if I know."Cawley stepped up beside them. "Quite similar to our clinical conclusion.

Happiness made Marv anxious because he knew it didn't last. But happiness destroyed was worth wrapping your arms around because it always hugged you back.

The only people who ask questions like, ‘Did he want to be something besides a bartender,’ are people who can become whatever they want. The rest of us are just Americans.

This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.

Lui avrebbe voluto chiederle che rumore fa un cuore quando si rompe per la gioia, quando è sufficiente la vista di qualcuno per riempirti come né il cibo, né il sangue, né l'aria potranno mai fare; quando ti senti come se fossi nato per vivere un momento preciso e quel momento, per qualche ragione particolare, era proprio quello.