There's something ugly about the flawless.

- Dennis Lehane

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment th…

- Dennis Lehane

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

- Dennis Lehane

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 ou…

- Dennis Lehane

Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and you…

- Dennis Lehane

I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life…

- Dennis Lehane

I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through…

- Dennis Lehane

It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

- Dennis Lehane

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.

- Dennis Lehane