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Dennis Lehane Quotes

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you’re capable of and making your words symphonic Picture Quote #1

The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

You’ve learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies Picture Quote #1

I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn’t raise the gun to my head fast enough Picture Quote #1

This world can only give me reminders of what I don’t have, can never have, didn’t have for long enough Picture Quote #1

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He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you’d been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it Picture Quote #1

Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present Picture Quote #1

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences Picture Quote #1

And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they’d made of each other Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who fuel our hate and our narrow views and tell us it’s simply a matter of getting back to basics while they sit in their beachfront properties and listen to the surf so they won’t have to hear the screams of the drowning Picture Quote #1

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Don’t get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It’s faux literary fiction I can’t stand Picture Quote #1

She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

That’s the thing about being a victim; you start to think it’ll happen to you on a regular basis. It’s living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks Picture Quote #1

Happiness comes in moments, and then it’s gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it Picture Quote #1

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you’re perceived by strangers Picture Quote #1

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Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man? Picture Quote #1

This is America... where every adult shall have the full and inalienable right to eat her young Picture Quote #1

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That’s how you focus the world. It’s the only reason you should ever try this writing job Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you’re capable of and making your words symphonic (Dennis Lehane Quotes) The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it? (Dennis Lehane Quotes) 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 (Dennis Lehane Quotes) You’ve learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies (Dennis Lehane Quotes) I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn’t raise the gun to my head fast enough (Dennis Lehane Quotes) This world can only give me reminders of what I don’t have, can never have, didn’t have for long enough (Dennis Lehane Quotes) He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you’d been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it (Dennis Lehane Quotes) Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present (Dennis Lehane Quotes) Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences (Dennis Lehane Quotes) And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they’d made of each other (Dennis Lehane Quotes) 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 (Dennis Lehane Quotes) L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who fuel our hate and our narrow views and tell us it’s simply a matter of getting back to basics while they sit in their beachfront properties and listen to the surf so they won’t have to hear the screams of the drowning (Dennis Lehane Quotes) Don’t get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It’s faux literary fiction I can’t stand (Dennis Lehane Quotes) She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim (Dennis Lehane Quotes) 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 (Dennis Lehane Quotes) That’s the thing about being a victim; you start to think it’ll happen to you on a regular basis. It’s living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks (Dennis Lehane Quotes) Happiness comes in moments, and then it’s gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it (Dennis Lehane Quotes) There are so many more important things to worry about than how you’re perceived by strangers (Dennis Lehane Quotes) Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man? (Dennis Lehane Quotes) This is America... where every adult shall have the full and inalienable right to eat her young (Dennis Lehane Quotes) Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That’s how you focus the world. It’s the only reason you should ever try this writing job (Dennis Lehane Quotes) 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 (Dennis Lehane Quotes)

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