Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has written several novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring a couple of protagonists and other recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War. Of these, his fourth, Gone, Baby, Gone, was adapted as a 2007 film by the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 August 1965
CityDorchester, MA
CountryUnited States of America
luxury essentials purity
Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.
wise children sheep
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.
lenses world saws
Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.
lost-love ruins made
And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.
love-you mean blood
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.
christian rain believe
I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand.
lying accepted leaks
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.
smell want asking
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...
reality thinking victim
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.
loneliness warning shocking
The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.
book good-day bad-day
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.
fiction i-can faux
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
believe levels language
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.