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Shutter Island QUOTES

Shutter Island QUOTES

1 " She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

2 " One that society can't forgive, but I can. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

3 " But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

4 " Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

5 " Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

6 " How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him? "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

7 " There's always a 'she'. Isn't there? "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

8 " How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

9 " I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn’t the least understandable thing you can do. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

10 " Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How many?” “Fish,” Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

11 " Got us a full moon too coming tomorrow night. Just make things a whole lot worse. All we need.
- Why is that?
- What’s that, Marshal?
- The full moon. You think it makes people crazy?
- I know it does.- Found a wrinkle in one of the pages and used his index finger to smooth it out.
- How come?
- Well, you think about it—the moon affects the tide, right?
- Sure.
- Has some sort of magnet effect or something on water.
- I’ll buy that.
- Human brain,- Trey said, - is over fifty percent water.
- No kidding?
- No kidding. You figure ol’ Mr. Moon can jerk the ocean around, think what it can do to the head. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

12 " Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man? "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

13 " He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

14 " This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

15 " The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it? "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

16 " If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person’s actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. It’s a no-win situation. It’s a death penalty really. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

17 " Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

18 " She smiled darkly and shook her head. 'I'm not crazy. I'm not. Of course what else would a crazy person claim? That's the Kafkaesque genius of it all. If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point. Do you see what I'm saying? "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

19 " I loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It’s its own unique gift. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island

20 " Everyone sees different things. "

― Dennis Lehane , Shutter Island