Tonya

“Grief,” he said, “is carnivorous. It feeds whether you’re awake or not, whether you fight it or you don’t. Much like cancer. And one morning you wake up and all those other emotions—joy, envy, greed, even love—are swallowed by it. And you’re alone with grief, naked to it. And it owns you.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“so many books, so little time”
― Frank Zappa

“My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!”
― Craig Shoemaker

“Cruelty is older than the Bible. Savagery beat its chest in the first human summer and has kept beating it every day since. The worst in men is commonplace. The best is a far rarer thing.”
― Dennis Lehane, The Drop