Shutter Island

by Dennis Lehane

So she didn’t die in pain. Fear? Maybe. But not pain. That’s important.”

He felt a sudden pity for all those people on the other side of the wall who recognized that thin wire for what it was, realized just how badly the world wanted to keep them in.

If you believe, gentlemen, that you are the sole holder of truth, then everyone else must be lying. And if everyone is lying…” “Then any truth they say,” Chuck said, “must be a lie.”