"Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals."
- Dennis Lehane
"Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion."
"Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended."
"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."
"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 en..."
"Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their "Amens" and seen them gather on a porch or two afterward with their lemonade and piety, but he knew ..."
"How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?"
"Jesus, Dolores, you've got to get yourself together. You've got responsibilities. Think about those sometimes - okay? - and get your fucking head right."Those were the last words his wife heard from h..."
"What's your name?""Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?""Wanted.""By all the girls or just the law?"
"There's always a 'she'. Isn't there?"