Dennis Lehane

Shutter Island

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    After the war, after Dachau, he’d swore he would never kill again unless he had no choice. Unless the other man’s gun was already pointed at him. Only then.
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    He’d refused to see it because if she actually were his true love, his immortal other self, then what did that say about his brain, his sanity, his moral weakness?
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    If he could sacrifice his own mind to restore hers, he would. Sell his limbs? Fine. She had been all the love he’d ever known for so long. She had been what carried him through the war, through this awful world. He loved her more than his life, more than his soul.
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    “When you go to the other place, part of you doesn’t come back.”

    “What other place, honey?” He placed his watch on the bed-stand.

    “And that part of you that does?” She bit her lip and looked like she was about to punch herself in the face with both fists. “Shouldn’t
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    And he dreamed.

    And in his dreams he and Dolores lived in a house by a lake.

    Because they’d had to leave the city.

    Because the city was mean and violent.
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    “This was our last gasp, Andrew. If you don’t accept who you are and what you did, if you don’t make an effort to swim toward sanity, we can’t save you.”
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    —’They knew. Don’t you get it? Everything you were up to. Your whole plan. This is a game. A handsomely mounted stage play. All this is for you.’”
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    but we differ on the interpretation of what that means.”
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    “I’m quoting here—’This is about you. And, Laeddis, this is all it’s ever been about. I was incidental. I was a way in.’”

    Teddy shook his head. “He’s not calling me Laeddis. You switched the emphasis. He was saying this is about you—meaning me—and Laeddis.”
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    A storm was essential to your fantasy
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