Moonlight Mile Quotes

“I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your ear canals like hot glass. No matter how much I love my daughter, I will never love her squealing.
Or maybe I will.
Maybe I do.
Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can’t remember when a block of it didn’t rest on top of my heart. I love what, if broken, can’t be repaired. What, if lost can’t be replaced.
I love my burdens.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“The sound of her breathing reminded me, as it so often did, of how vulnerable she was. And how vulnerable we were because of how much we loved her. The fear - that something could happen to her at any moment, something I'd be helpless to stop - had become so omnipresent in my life that I sometimes pictured it growing, like a third arm, out of the center of my chest.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“After my daughter was born, I’d considered buying a shotgun to ward off potential suitors fourteen or so years up the road. Now, as I listened to these girls babble and imagined Gabby one day talking with the same banality and ignorance of the English language, I thought of buying the same shotgun to blow my own fucking head off.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“My blessings outweigh my regrets.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can’t remember when a block of it didn’t rest on top of my heart. I love what, if broken, can’t be repaired. What, if lost can’t be replaced.

I love my burdens.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautiful woman.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“She had the air of someone clinging to a wall of soap.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“All the stuff our fathers took for granted as long as you worked hard, the great safety net and the fair wage and the gold watch at the end of it all? That's all gone around here, my friend.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“The lines in her face were deep enough to hide gravel in.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“That little girl, I adore her, but she’s an anarchist. She wakes us up whenever she feels like it, she thinks high-energy at seven in the morning is a positive, sometimes she screams for no reason, she decides on a second-to-second basis which foods she’ll eat and which she’ll fight you over, she puts her hands and face into truly disgusting places, and she’s attached to our hips for at least another fourteen years, if we’re lucky enough for a college we can’t afford to take her off our hands.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage without a scroll button?”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“You're just pissed off. And when you're pissed off, you lash out.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“I love my burdens.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“searched for reasons not to blow my brains out. I came up with two or three dozen real fast, but I still wasn’t certain I could listen to many more conversations between Brandon and one of his “bras.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“because you symbolize his cockeyed”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“have been this other one they call Spartak.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“Charming as he was, you never felt fully comfortable with the guy, because he never seemed fully comfortable with himself.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“Yeah, well, it’s not like the old days.” I bit into my lobster roll. Maybe the best lobster roll in Boston, which made it, arguably, the best lobster roll in the world. “It’s”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“After I left Brandon, I met Dominique at the Neptune Oyster in the North End.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“I just notice people sometimes mistake their life choices for their moral ones.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile

“Goddamn embarrassing what a civilian you've become, man.”
― Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile