Dennis Lehane Quotes

I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.

This life is messy.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

Life's messy.

There are always loose ends in real life.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

Life is so unlike theory.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

History seems to be so clumsy.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

History is totally unpredictable.

Destiny and history are untidy.

Chaos is the undercurrent of everything that happens in life.

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.