SHUTTER ISLAND - DENNIS LEHANE

Shutter Island - Pg 212

She was so simply his love, his girl, watching him approach as if she were memorizing him and his walk and those flowers and this moment, and 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.

Shutter Island - Pg 86

"How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"

"I don't know. How many?"

"Eight."

"Why?"

"Oh, stop overanalyzing it." 

Shutter Island - Pg 81

We were supposed to grow old together, Dolores. Have kids. Take walks under old trees. I wanted to watch the lines etch themselves into your flesh and know when each and every one of them appeared. Die together.

Shutter Island - Pg 21

No matter how much he'd learned to carry it, carry her, the weight could wear him down every now and then.

Shutter Island - Pg 13

You told yourself it was okay--because that's what you had to do to cross a body of water--but it wasn't.

Shutter Island - Pg 9

He'd cut himself a few times, and the blood dotted his fingertips and smeared his palms.