Dennis Lehane Quote

Organs softening. Trooper, Friel said, You know what I like even less than ten-year-old black boys getting shot by bullshit gang-war crossfire? Sean knew the answer, but he didn’t say anything. Nineteen-year-old white girls getting murdered in my parks. People don’t say ‘Oh, the vagaries of economics’ then. They don’t feel a wistful sense of the tragic. They feel pissed and they want somebody to be led onto the six o’clock in shackles. Friel nudged Sean. I mean, right? Right. That’s what they want, because they’re us and that’s what we want. Friel grasped Sean’s shoulder so he’d look

Dennis Lehane

Organs softening. Trooper, Friel said, You know what I like even less than ten-year-old black boys getting shot by bullshit gang-war crossfire? Sean knew the answer, but he didn’t say anything. Nineteen-year-old white girls getting murdered in my parks. People don’t say ‘Oh, the vagaries of economics’ then. They don’t feel a wistful sense of the tragic. They feel pissed and they want somebody to be led onto the six o’clock in shackles. Friel nudged Sean. I mean, right? Right. That’s what they want, because they’re us and that’s what we want. Friel grasped Sean’s shoulder so he’d look

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