“When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them”Tana French book The LikenessSource: The Likeness
“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”Tana French In the WoodsSource: In the Woods
“I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack”Tana French book The LikenessSource: The Likeness
“Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong.”Tana French In the WoodsSource: In the Woods
“I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your way closer. Clasp your hands around it tighter. Till you find a way to make it yours.”Tana French book The Secret PlaceSource: The Secret Place