Author: Dennis Lehane

Cites

• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: Prayers For Rain (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All that’s beautiful drifts away Like the waters.
    FROM: The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water, (1903), Poem, Ireland
• Elizabeth Bishop (1)
  • IN: Shutter Island (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: …must we dream our dreams and have them, too?
    FROM: Questions of Travel, (1965), Poem, US
• Cormac McCarthy (1)
  • IN: Live by Night (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
    FROM: Blood Meridian, (1985), Novel, US
• Lucky Luciano (1)
  • IN: Live by Night (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It’s too late to be good.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Mick and Richards, Keith Jagger (1)
  • IN: Moonlight Mile (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am just living to be lying by your side But I’m just about a moonlight mile on down the road
    FROM: Moonlight Mile, (1971), Song, UK
• Josh Ritter (1)
  • IN: The Given Day (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When Jesus comes a calling, she said, He’s coming ’round the mountain on a train.
    FROM: Wings, (2003), Song, US
• Richard Burton (1)
  • IN: The Drop (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Meanwhile, "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry, Safe in the inner fold; And maybe they hear, and wonder why, And marvel, out in the cold.
    FROM: Black Sheep, (1889), Poem, UK
• Bruce Springsteen (1)
  • IN: World Gone By (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... I'm driving a stolen car On a pitch black night And I'm telling myself I'm gonna be alright.
    FROM: Stolen Car, (1980), Song, US
• Buddy Johnson (1)
  • IN: Since We Fell (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When you just give love and never get love you’d better let love depart I know it’s so, and yet I know I can’t get you out of my heart
    FROM: “Since I Fell For You", (1945), Song, US
• René Descartes (1)
  • IN: Since We Fell (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Masked, I advance,
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Pete Dexter (1)
  • IN: Mystic River (2001) Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: [He] did not understand women. It wasn't the way bartenders or comedians didn't understand women, it was the way poor people didn't understand the economy. You could stand outside the Girard Bank Building every day of your life and never guess anything about what went on in there. That's why, in their hearts, they'd always rather stick up a 7-Eleven.
    FROM: God's Pocket, (1983), Novel, US
• Luis de Góngora (1)
  • IN: Mystic River (2001) Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is no street with mute stones and no house without echoes.
    FROM: Las firmezas de Isabela, (None), Play, Spain