“The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.” PeopleHappensCreativePossibilityProfessionBest ThingsEntering Author: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 the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.” WorldWayHappensFatherClassStruggleSeeingRageImmigrantsTiedWorking ClassTied Up Author:Dennis Lehane
“And 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)” HeartSometimesFactsHappensPainLeftBloodWorstWalkingRiversVictimOrgansShellsSurvivedWorst ThingsShockedMysticStumblingImperviousWalking Dead Author:Dennis Lehane
“That'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.” ThinkingRealityHappensBasesVictimVulnerability Book:A Drink Before The War Source: A Drink Before The War