He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.
Dennis LehaneThe brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?
Dennis LehaneThe ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.
Dennis LehaneWhat's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?
Dennis LehaneWhatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.
Dennis LehaneIf you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane personโs actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. Itโs a no-win situation. Itโs a death penalty really.
Dennis Lehane