Dennis Lehane Quotes

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

He that is jealous is not in love.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

Love doesn't last.

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.

Love makes you blind. One day you're in love, the next day you wake up and realize that not everything is perfect.

I think love isn't doomed, of course, but in real life, love doesn't always work out.

I've had friends who say that they would never forgive cheating, but then they fall in love, the guy cheats, and they forgive him. I don't know what I would do.

There's no secret it's hard work. Even though Brian's the love of my life, and he's absolutely adorable, it's not easy, and we have to work at it. But because we love each other and keep working at it, it pays off.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.