Gone, Baby, Gone Quotes

“When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“Those who did remember probably shrugged off the chill of her memory, turned their heads down to the sports page or up toward the approaching bus. The world is a terrible place, they thought. Bad things happen every day. My bus is late.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“Love like that? Hell, it seems so pure, it's damn near criminal.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And these people—relatives, friends, police officers, reporters from both TV and print—create a lot of energy and noise, a sense of communal intensity, of fierce and shared dedication to a task.

“But amid all that noise, nothing is louder than the silence of the missing child. It’s a silence that’s two and a half to three feet tall, and you feel it at your hip and hear it rising up from the floorboards, shouting to you from corners and crevices and the emotionless face of a doll left on the floor by the bed.

“It’s a silence that’s different from the one left at funerals and wakes. The silence of the dead carries with it a sense of finality; it’s a silence you know you must get used to. But the silence of a missing child is not something you want to get used to; you refuse to accept it, and so it screams at you.

“The silence of the dead says, Goodbye.

“The silence of the missing says, Find me.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone,' he sang.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“As far as I could see, she didn't take any better care of her apparel than I did mine, but I owned shirts that looked like they'd been run through a car engine half an hour after I removed the price tags, and she had socks from high school that were still as white as palace linen. Women and their clothes often astounded me this way, but I figured it was one of those mysteries I'd never solve - like what really happened to Amelia Earhart or the bell that used to occupy our office.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“This is America . . . where every adult shall have the full and inalienable right to eat her young”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“and two men standing up top, weeping like children because they’d somehow never known the world could get this bad.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“bore”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“I can’t think of one reason big enough for them to lie and small enough for it not to matter.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“Autumn died in technicolor all around us. Bright yellows and reds afire, burnished oranges and rusty greens painted the leaves that floated from the branches, collected in the grass.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone

“For every solution, a problem.”
― Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone