Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.
Dennis LehaneYour 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 LehaneAfter all your years climbing around in people’s heads like a cranial janitor, do you think people know why they do things? People rationalize, they turn their delusions into something romantic that they can disguise as ethics or principles or ideals. People are selfish, Doctor- odiously, monstrously, but in so small and paltry a monstrousness that we barely notice it.
Dennis LehaneI 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.
Dennis LehaneThe lines in her face were deep enough to hide gravel in.
Dennis LehaneShe had the air of someone clinging to a wall of soap.
Dennis LehaneAfter my daughter was born, I’d considered buying a shotgun to ward off potential suitors fourteen or so years up the road. Now, as I listened to these girls babble and imagined Gabby one day talking with the same banality and ignorance of the English language, I thought of buying the same shotgun to blow my own fucking head off.
Dennis LehaneHer forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.
Dennis LehaneI'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car
Dennis LehaneThe world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.
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