Since We Fell
Dennis Lehane
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing's built to last, not even shame.”
“Monsters don't dress like monsters; they dress like humans. Even stranger, they rarely know they're the monsters.”
“We are not special. We are lit from within by a single candle flame and when that flame is blown out and all light leaves our eyes it is the same as if we never existed at all. We don't own our life. We rent it.”
“...you have to bear witness to your dead. You simply have to. You have to step into their energy field of whatever remains of their spirit, their soul, their essence and let it pass through your body. And in the passing, maybe a wisp of it adheres to you, grafts itself to your cells. And in this communion, the dead continue to live. Or strive to.”
“A man is the stories he tells about himself, and most of those stories are lies. Never look too closely. If you uncover his lies, it’ll humiliate you both. Best just to live with the bullshit.”
“He held up a hand to stop her. “Then one day, about six months ago, it hit me—love doesn’t trump all for you, safety does. And I knew sooner or later you’d dump me before I’d dump you because—and this is the important part, Rach—I would never dump you.” He gave her a beautiful, broken smile. “And that’s been my purpose all along.” After”
“What was a strong marriage? What was a good marriage? She knew terrible people who had wonderful marriages, glued together somehow in their terribleness. And she knew fine, fine people who’d stood before God and all their friends to profess their undying love to each other only to toss that love on a slag heap a few years later. In the end, no matter how good they were—or thought they were—usually all that remained of the love they’d so publicly professed was vitriol, regret, and a kind of awed dismay at how dark the roads they’d ventured down became by the end.”
“There's darkness in this world you can't learn about by watching TV and reading books.”
“She felt like weeping. She didn't know why at first, but then it hit her. He knew her.He knew her, this man she'd married, this man she'd committed herself to walking through this life with. He knew her. And—wonder of wonders—he was still here.”
“We age as the rest of the world watches, she thought, but somehow we’re the last to know. There”
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Book Keywords:
living, shame, she, memory, honoring-the-dead, disposable, death
