Darkness, Take My Hand (1996) (edit title/settings)

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• Patrick Kenzie: Add a description of this character.
• Angie Gennaro
• Gerry Glynn
• Phil
• Devin
• Bolton
• Oscar
• Kevin Hurlihy
• Alec Hardiman
• Jason Warren: Son of Diandra
• Grace: Girlfriend of Kenzie
• Evandro Arujo
• Diandra Warren
• Eric
• Bryce
• Jack Rouse
• Bubba Rogowski: Friend of Patrick & Angie
• Kara Rider: Childhood friend of Kenzie
• Freddy
• Lief
• Rugglestone
• Mae
• Patton
• Dunn
• Erdham
• Cal Morrison
• Rogin
• Mr. Constantine
• Dolquist
• John
• Moira Kenzie
• Lyle
• Stan Timpson: Ex husband of Diandra and father of Jason
• Angela

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• “You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.”

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• People, my mother once claimed, cannot be fully understood, only reacted to.

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• I know society tells us it’s good to talk about tragedy, to discuss it with friends or qualified strangers, and maybe so. But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.

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• “It never goes away. The worry. The fear. Not for a second. That’s the price of bringing life into this world.”

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• But we can love more than one thing simultaneously. We’re human, so we’re messy.”

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• simple act of caring for another, smaller human being was more therapeutic than a thousand counseling sessions, and I found myself wondering if past generations had been right when they accepted that as common knowledge.

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• “But we all dream of other lives, I suppose. We all want to live a thousand different existences during our time here. But we can’t, can we?”

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• You can’t clean sewers for a living and come home smelling like soap,

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• I guess my impulse had something to do with growing older, with looking back and seeing very few innocent violences committed against the young, in knowing that every tiny pain scars and chips away at what is pure and infinitely breakable in a child.

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• I smiled as he handed it to me. “Like sex in a sailboat,” I said. He laughed loudly and sputtered the punchline. “It’s fucking too close to water. I love that one.”

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• Something can sit in front of you your whole life, waiting to be noticed for what it is, and often you’re sitting too close to really see it.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Brookline
• New England
• New York
• Dorchester
• Prince Street
• Walpole
• Harvard

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by A Drink Before the War, and followed by Sacred.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Dennis Lehane (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Authors, A-Z › ( L ) › Lehane, Dennis
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery › Hard-Boiled
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary