{"author":"Dennis Lehane","author_id":"Dennis+Lehane","total_quotes":54,"quotes":[{"text":"Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again.","author":"Dennis Lehane","tags":["relationships","sad-but-true"],"id":1503,"author_id":"Dennis+Lehane"},{"text":"Joe knew what the nod meant-this was why they became outlaws. To live moments the insurance salesman of the world, the truck drivers, and lawyers and bank tellers and carpenters and realtors would never know. Moments in a world without nets-none to catch you and none to envelop you. Joe looked at Dion and recalled what he’d felt after the first time they’d knocked over that newsstand on Bowdoin Street when they were thirteen years old, We will probably die young.","author":"Dennis Lehane","tags":["life-and-death","outlaws"],"id":3560,"author_id":"Dennis+Lehane"},{"text":"Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve’s hand—they’d have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.","author":"Dennis Lehane","tags":["death","heroes","image"],"id":18069,"author_id":"Dennis+Lehane"},{"text":"Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.","author":"Dennis Lehane","tags":["dennis-lehane","honor","patrick-mckenzie","quotes","sacred"],"id":24098,"author_id":"Dennis+Lehane"},{"text":"How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?","author":"Dennis Lehane","tags":["madness","violence"],"id":31609,"author_id":"Dennis+Lehane"},{"text":"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).","author":"Dennis Lehane","tags":["death","shell-shocked","survivors","the-walking-dead"],"id":32698,"author_id":"Dennis+Lehane"},{"text":"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.","author":"Dennis Lehane","tags":["parenthood"],"id":43963,"author_id":"Dennis+Lehane"},{"text":"She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.","author":"Dennis Lehane","tags":["beautiful","description","man","mystic-river","smoke","voice"],"id":46044,"author_id":"Dennis+Lehane"},{"text":"All the stuff our fathers took for granted as long as you worked hard, the great safety net and the fair wage and the gold watch at the end of it all? That's all gone around here, my friend.","author":"Dennis Lehane","tags":["america","kehane","moonlight-mile"],"id":51481,"author_id":"Dennis+Lehane"},{"text":"Jesus, Dolores, you've got to get yourself together. You've got responsibilities. Think about those sometimes - okay? - and get your fucking head right.'Those were the last words his wife heard from him. He'd closed the door and walked down the stairs, paused on the last step. He thought of going back. He thought of going back up the stairs and into the apartment and somehow making it right. Or, if not right, at least softer.Softer. That would have been nice.","author":"Dennis Lehane","tags":["final-words","regret","shutter-island"],"id":53915,"author_id":"Dennis+Lehane"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}