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Dennis Lehane _ A Drink Before the War
That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. Suddenly everything looks suspect and any brightness you may have noticed the day before has dissipated into the shadows. And the shadows are everywhere. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.
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Dennis Lehane _ A Drink Before the War
It's impossible to park on Tremont or even idle there for more than thirty seconds. A platoon of meter maids, imported from the female Hitler Youth shortly after the fall of Berlin, roam the street, at least two to a block, pit bull faces on top of fire hydrant bodies, just waiting for someone stupid enough to stall traffic on their street.
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Dennis Lehane _ A Drink Before the War
If Donald Trump puked, Copley Place is probably what would hit the toilet."
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Dennis Lehane _ A Drink Before the War
There's a bar around the corner. Lemme buy you a drink before the war.
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Dennis Lehane _ A Drink Before the War
Another death. The more I see, the less I know.
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Dennis Lehane _ A Drink Before the War
Maybe I'd move to Tibet, climb a mountain with the Dalai Lama or head to Paris and wear nothing but black, grow myself a keen goatee and talk about jazz all the time. Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.
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Dennis Lehane _ A Drink Before the War
Civilization seems to be something we choose when it fits our purpose.
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Dennis Lehane _ A Drink Before the War
New Music, I guess, is all those bands Angie listens to. They have names like Depeche Mode and The Smiths and all they sound the same to me - like a bunch of skinny white British nerds on Thorazine. The Stones, when they started, were a bunch of skinny white British nerds too, but they never sounded like they were on Thorazine. Even if they were.
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Dennis Lehane _ A Drink Before the War
It never works that way. Once that ugliness has been forced into you, it becomes part of your blood, dilutes it, races through your heart and back out again, staining everything as it goes. The ugliness never goes away, never comes out, no matter what you do. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive. All you can do is hope to control it.
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Dennis Lehane _ A Drink Before the War
I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum
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Dennis Lehane _ A Drink Before the War
You hear it most when politicians who live in places like Hyannis Port and Beacon Hill and Wellesley make decisions that affect people who live in Dorchester and Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, and then step back and say there isn't a war going on. There is a war going on. It's happening in playgrounds, not health clubs. It's fought on cement, not lawns. It's fought with pipes and bottles, and lately, automatic weapons. And as long as it doesn't push through the heavy oak doors where they fight with prep school educations and filibusters and two-martini lunches, it will never actually exist.
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Dennis Lehane _ A Drink Before the War
Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'."
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