01c. 1994 ADThat'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 / quote ↗
02c. 1994 ADDanny 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.Dennis Lehane / quote ↗
03c. 1994 ADPatrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage without a scroll button?Dennis Lehane / quote ↗
04c. 1994 ADHe was broad-shouldered, dark-haired and dark-eyed; more than once, women had been noted openly regarding him, and not just immigrant women or those who smoked in public.Dennis Lehane / quote ↗
05c. 1994 ADThe 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.Dennis Lehane / quote ↗
06c. 1994 ADWhen a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outlaw; (b) he came from a magnificent house not a magnificent home.Dennis Lehane / quote ↗
07c. 1994 ADVanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.Dennis Lehane / quote ↗
08c. 1994 ADI won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.Dennis Lehane / quote ↗
