The 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 LehaneHow many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?โ โI donโt know. How many?โ โEight.โ โWhy?โ โOh, stop overanalyzing it.
Dennis LehaneI loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You canโt compare that kind of love to anything, can you? Itโs its own unique gift.
Dennis LehaneIt's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.
Dennis LehaneAnd often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)
Dennis Lehane