Quotes by Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane

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

Lost Love

Made

Ruins

And often the worst thing wasn’t the victims–they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)

Blood

Heart

Pain

Believe it or not, Marshal, I believe in talk therapy, basic interpersonal skills. I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect and listen to what he’s trying to tell you, you just might reach him. (87)

Believe

Ideas

Skills

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.

Bad Day

Book

Good Day

Choice, I’ve always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

Always Believe

Animal

Choices

Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?…Gods don’t think they can become men.

Differences

Men

Thinking

Everyone sees different things.

Different

Different Things

Grief, I swear to God, doesn’t live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can’t smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

Cutting

Grief

Heart

Happiness doesn’t lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.

Home

Lying

Unconditional Love

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.

Believe

Language

Levels

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Always Believe

Animal

Asking

Awful

Bad Day

Bars

Believe

Blessed

Block

Blood

Book

Brain

Buttons

Catholic

Choices

Connections

Core

Crazy

Creative

Cutting

Daughter

Differences

Different

Different Things

Doe

Earth

Entering

Fall

Focus

Genius

Golf

Good Day

Good Man

Grief

Growing Up

Hanging Out

Hate

Heart

Home

Ideas

Important

Insane Person

Insects

Jobs

Kids

Knows

Language

Levels

Lost Love

Love You

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Quotes by Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane

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

Believe it or not, Marshal, I believe in talk therapy, basic interpersonal skills. I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect and listen to what he’s trying to tell you, you just might reach him. (87)

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.

Choice, I’ve always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?…Gods don’t think they can become men.

Everyone sees different things.

Grief, I swear to God, doesn’t live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can’t smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

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.

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